Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/11/10/07:44:00
On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, Grzegorz Kolodziej wrote:
> Few examples of space occupied by some archive files
> oryginally and tared before packed:
>
> Archive: Oryginally When TbP Ratio
>
> DJDEV201 ZIP 1,538,083 1,332,193 86.6 %
> DJLSR201 ZIP 1,460,733 881,996 60.4 % !
You can achieve similar results with zip like so:
pkzip -e0 -r -p djdev201.ze0 bin\*.* include\*.* lib\*.* zoneinfo\*.*
pkzip -ex djdev201.zip djdev201.ze0
The -e0 flags tells PKZIP to make an uncompressed archive which is then
compressed into the final zip.
The main reason in using Zip is its wide availability, on both DOS and
Unix platforms. Most other archivers aren't available so widely on one or
the other of these platforms.
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