Friday, December 03, 1999
Hello Alexander,
Friday, Friday, December 03, 1999, you wrote:
Alexander> Hi there!
Alexander> On 2 Dec 99, at 18:08, Claudius Regn wrote
Alexander> about "Re[4]: Classic Glyphs":
>> I just checked WinRARs 'estimated compression' for (a) 1/3rd of my
>> 'programs' directory and (b) some source code.
>>
>> (a) 1.02 GB / 8500 files
>> ZIP best: 65%, time: 36sec
>> RAR best: 63%, time: 57sec (!!)
>> (b) 10.4 MB / 1040 files
>> ZIP best: 34%
>> RAR best: 32% time: again about twice as much.
Alexander> Was it solid archiving? Then I'm pretty surprised:-) My own
Alexander> tests showed that RAR was 20--30% better on large collections
Alexander> of *different-type* files. And about 5--10% better when the files
Alexander> were of the same type (all exacutables, or all textual, or...)
Alexander> As for speed, it doesn't really matter for me.
What version of winrar, try 2.60 and also check decompression.
And take security into account
>> I guess this small difference might be important for shareware
>> downloads - as thebat.exe - where every bit counts.
Alexander> What is even more important is RAR's ability to protect archives
Alexander> from damaging and *reliably* restore damaged ones.
100% agreed
>> But for backups and "disk cleaning" ZIP and RAR seem to be
>> equally wealthy.
Alexander> When I once upon a time converted all my archives from zip to
Alexander> rar, I saved 50 megs of disk space. _For me_ it's pretty good a
Alexander> result. Two Netscapes would fit in:-)
>> I do exchange compressed files with others on a regular basis
>> in ZIP format - the reason is, that is is supported so much
>> more by many users.
Alexander> Actually, most of the people *have* RAR somewhere, but are
Alexander> still sending out ZIPs "just in case the other person hasn't RAR".
I tend to send SFX rars but split
>> WinRAR doesn't support tar.gz, right?
Alexander> Tar and Gzip are available everywhere as Windows
Alexander> executables. RAR, OTOH, can support the third-party archivers
Alexander> provided that it can find the execs on the path.
>> Single archive pwd protection?
Alexander> Yes, even in WinRAR 2.02 I have here:-)
>> But I'm interested in more RAR pro-arguments ;)!
Alexander> So here they are:-)
you can blow zip archives internally without getting a warning if you
have to many files or at least you could.
Admittedly that was the dos version...
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