On Sun, 21 Oct 2018 13:25:24 +0200, Martin wrote in message <14421440.MIaJRJDx6e@merkaba>:
> Adam Borowski - 20.10.18, 22:54: > > * zip is used by Windows folks only, similar to gzip. > > It is also used by LibreOffice (or under-maintained OpenOffice). > > […] > > * 7z is similar but incompatible to xz; also a container rather > > than a pure compressor. > > There can be benefits of container compressors like zip and 7z: > > Tar comes from Tape Archiver. It works sequential. So to dig out just > one file it has to read over all the archive until that file comes. > > Zip instead has the contents directory at a central place, as far as > I vaguely remember at the end of the file. That is one of the reasons > OpenOffice developers back then chose it. > > Well of course there are other containers as well like dar for disk > archiver. > > There is a crazy amount of tools in that area. I benchmarked some of > them quite some time ago¹. > > [1] outdated, I wrote a Linux User article about those quite some > time ago, the packbench program may still work tough and could be > enhanced, adapted to support newer stuff: > https://martin-steigerwald.de/computer/programme/packbench/index.html ..these tests packed/zipped coreutils-8.5.tar from here?: https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=6301 > And yeah, I know Gitorius is gone and I intend to upload everything > to Gitlab at some time. > -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
