Re: [Freedos-devel] 7Zip

2012-08-22 Thread Rugxulo
Hi yet again, I should probably now mention that I had already cross-compiled p7zip 9.20.1 for DJGPP a few days ago. I really just wanted some testing from BTTR's forum before announcing anything. Even then, I feel too crude to really call it a port (or, God forbid, maintainer!). It's more like,

Re: [Freedos-devel] 7Zip

2012-08-22 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Steve Nickolas wrote: > On Wed, 22 Aug 2012, Georg Potthast wrote: > >> I observed that 7zip provides a better compression than ZIP. The CD image of >> my Graphical FreeDOS distribution XFDOS "xfdos.iso" is 63.2 MB uncompressed. >> ZIP compresses this to 53.1

Re: [Freedos-devel] 7Zip

2012-08-22 Thread Steve Nickolas
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012, Georg Potthast wrote: > I observed that 7zip provides a better compression than ZIP. The CD image of > my Graphical FreeDOS distribution XFDOS "xfdos.iso" is 63.2 MB uncompressed. > ZIP compresses this to 53.1 MB while 7z compresses it to 27.1 MB, almost > half of that. See he

Re: [Freedos-devel] 7Zip

2012-08-22 Thread Georg Potthast
I observed that 7zip provides a better compression than ZIP. The CD image of my Graphical FreeDOS distribution XFDOS "xfdos.iso" is 63.2 MB uncompressed. ZIP compresses this to 53.1 MB while 7z compresses it to 27.1 MB, almost half of that. See here: http://code.google.com/p/nanox-microwindows-

Re: [Freedos-devel] 7Zip

2012-08-21 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Aug 22, 2012 12:06 AM, Jose Antonio Senna < jasse...@vivointernetdiscada.com.br> wrote: > > On 21-8-2012 22:17, Rugxulo wrote: > > >A few years ago I tested 7-Zip on my 486. It was smaller and faster > >than almost anything, so it was a clear winner, not to mention being > >open source and