From my own experience PKZIP (the new one) is much faster than anything else I've used.
Also, with PKZIP I was actually able to pipe very large log files from perl to pkzip command line and it not only kept up but did an exceptional job. Only way I could really handle really large files. If your machines are in a network and you can access them programmatically then maybe you can get by with fewer copies of pkzip. I grab log files from all my network machines via a program on a central server. If you need absolutely free then you could use Perl on each machine and use the zip library from within perl. Or you can do same thing with PowerBasic for instance and one of the free ZLIB libraries. hope you find your best solution Terry Fritts --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
