[DUG] Zipmaster

2010-02-26 Thread John Bird
Testing Zipmaster for creating zip archives. Looks good but - two practical problems: 1 - Its Slow - archiving 60 files of around 150MB takes 2 mins 38 sec, by comparison the old PKZIP takes 18 seconds. 2 - I managed to crash or terminate writing an archive once, and that left the archive

Re: [DUG] Zipmaster

2010-02-26 Thread Xander (GMail)
I've used the free '7Zip' with good results. Cheers -Original Message- From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz] On Behalf Of John Bird Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2010 3:04 PM To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: [DUG] Zipmaster Testing

Re: [DUG] Zipmaster

2010-02-26 Thread Jeremy North
Abbrevia Sent from my iPhone On 27/02/2010, at 10:03 AM, John Bird johnkb...@paradise.net.nz wrote: Testing Zipmaster for creating zip archives. Looks good but - two practical problems: 1 - Its Slow - archiving 60 files of around 150MB takes 2 mins 38 sec, by comparison the old

Re: [DUG] Zipmaster

2010-02-26 Thread Colin Johnsun
On 27 February 2010 14:36, Jeremy North jeremy.no...@gmail.com wrote: Abbrevia It can be found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/tpabbrevia/ ___ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin:

Re: [DUG] Zipmaster

2010-02-26 Thread John Bird
7Zip you drive by Shellexecute and Command line? or is there a native Delphi? If it is Shellexecute then I am fine using PKZIP - note there is a later version (V4) called pkzipc that does long filenames, with a different syntax. About to check out Abbrevia for speed John