On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 21:00 +0800, Andrew W. Hill wrote: > I haven't quite figured out the problem yet, but I have also noticed > it. Additionally, I've found that some zip methods totally screw up > the file, even changing the final file size.
A different final file size doesn't necessarily mean something is wrong. There are different compression "strengths" with zip, usually a trade-off between CPU time and file size. Additionally, there is more than one option for compression method, and different apps might have different defaults. > Three main methods are > using "Archive" from OS X, Stuffit's zipping, and gzip from the > terminal. These aren't actually the same thing. Gzip doesn't produce a zip file (confusing, I know) but actually a single file that's been compressed using (I think) the `deflate' encoding that's the most common one used in zip files. It's the simplest, but it's not a actually a zip file and some tools that know about zip files might not handle it. -- Craig Ringer
