Author: Sally Weltrop
Date: 12:11:07 06/13/02
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On June 13, 2002 at 09:13:02, Daniel Clausen wrote: >On June 13, 2002 at 08:52:02, Sally Weltrop wrote: > >>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 > >A TAR+bzip2 solution surely would be nice, so non-Windows people can extract >them too... > >You should first tar everything in one file and afterwards bzip2/gzip the single >file. Unlike with Winzip, the process of archiving and compressing is separated >in 2 commands. > >gzip/bzip/winzip are general-purpose compressors. They do quite good on average, >but specialized compressors (ie they know what kind of input they get) will >always be better. BZip2 basically does this in one shot. They come out the same EXACT size. > >Sargon
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