Author: Sally Weltrop
Date: 05:52:02 06/13/02
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On June 13, 2002 at 08:20:04, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On June 13, 2002 at 06:49:22, Sally Weltrop wrote: > >>I converted all the CCC archives from 9/97 - 2/02 that were in ZIP format to CAB >>format. It was a substantial savings in size. I lopped off about 65% >>excessthrough better compression. The CAB format can easily be extracted with >>WinZIP and many of the other compression tools out. If ANYONE that hosts these >>files wants me to upload them to their site just let me know and I'll do it. It >>could save a lot of time for someone with dial-up connections to get a hold of >>the archives or for those trying to save space. >> >>CAB even did better in this instance than the latest versions of ACE & RAR > >I don't think CAB is supported outside Windows. > >Tar + bzip2 would be good universal solution that will be hard to beat. ZIP ----- 5.37MB CAB ----- 2.20MB BZip2 --- 3.21MB Now do u mean TAR them first THEN Bzip'em? or just BZip2 as a TAR format? I tried that and they came out the same 3.21MB I can do this if u want, convert them to BZip2 TAR format. it ends with a BZ2 extension > >-- >GCP
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