Simon Cooke wrote:
>RAR, of course, has the same benefits. The reason tar + gzip compresses >better is because ZIP treats separate files as individual compression >blocks; rather than compressing the entire archive. For data that may be >repeated across files, tar'ing and then gzipping the file gives better >results. Taring and then bzipping might give even better results... >FWIW, WinZip handles tar+gzip files... but I'm not so sure about WinZip, with tar.bz2. -- Stuart Brady
