Organization: Technical University of Kielce
Address: Al. Tysiaclecia P.P. 7, 25-314 Kielce, POLAND
Message-ID: <32823D97.44DD@sabat.tu.kielce.pl>
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 1996 14:50:47 -0500
From: Grzegorz Kolodziej <kolodzie AT sabat DOT tu DOT kielce DOT pl>
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To: dj AT delorie DOT com
CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Why not to use 'tar' before packing DJGPP?
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Hi!

 Why don't you use tar before zipping  DJGPP  or 
contributed packages?
 It can give some savings of space needed for them
and reduce time of downloading.
  Of course it'll be effective when used with
archives containing a big ammount of files which have
similar structure (i.e. all the source archives).
 I'm connected to a network through a not very fast link,
so it would be great to me to save an hour or two when D/L 
new version of DJGPP.
  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 % !
FIL313S  ZIP       752,389   631,933      84.0 %
GRX20    ZIP       659,605   447,903      67.9 %
BNU27B   ZIP     1,711,520 1,702,332      99.5 % :-(
GDBM173S ZIP       138,576    88,010      63.5 %
BCCGRX20 ZIP       347,920   289,646      83.2 %

	(over 1.2MB saved on 7 files)
				
				Sincerely Yours
		
				Grzegorz Kolodziej
 			        (don't even try to pronounce it)