Hi,
> I think you are overdoing things.
may be ;-)
> I think doublezipping is also overdoing things. The doublezipping
> works because when you FIRST zip with NO compression and THEN pack
> that zip into another zip, then you can compress archives with
> several similar files better.
exactly.
> But this is tricky to unpack
No.
> and needs more temp space.
Yes.
>I recommend using TGZ in that case.
not available for DOS.
> There are at least TAR and GZIP for DOS
there is no need for TAR, as TAR is essentialy
xxZIP 'No compression'
> but only a monolithic TAR+GZ would avoid
> the temp space problem
we are talking about 233 Kb TEMP SPACE (for XKEYB full set)
the last time, I 'installed' freedos, it took 6 Mb. permanently. without
asking.
(this was the 'easy freedos32' distro)
> And I think all this is too complicated for our installer!
sure. :-((
however InfoZIP supports redirection. at least in theory,
ZIP -extract *.* | ZIP -extract GR*.*
is possible. the problem is with the installer, not with ZIP.
tom
Only use it when the differences are really big.
>
> Eric.
>
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