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On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 19:13 -0500, Aryeh Gregor wrote:
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On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Ashley Sheridan
<<A HREF="mailto:ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk">ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk</A>> wrote:
> Ideally I guess then, the browsers would support .tar.gz files as these give much better compression than .zip.
ZIP and gzip give comparable compression, in my experience. I just
applied both to a random 3.5M text file lying around in /tmp, and got
exactly 170K for both. bzip2, 7-Zip, and xz tend to give better
compression.
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I'm just going on software I download that's offered as both types of archive. Generally, gz is the smallest. Saying that, bz2 seems to be superior than both of them, but as it's so new, it doesn't have a massive take-up.<BR>
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Thanks,<BR>
Ash<BR>
<A HREF="http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk">http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk</A><BR>
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