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Subject: Re: CCC Archives - 70MB instead of 200MB! - ZIP vs. CAB

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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