From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2008-02-19T08:53:48+09:00
Subject: OT: Why are .zip files so much bigger than tar.gz files?

So I has started to offer .zip packages of my projects to make life a
little easier for Windows folks --seeing as it's no sweat off the
backs of Linux folks either (unzip) --but then I noticed that zip
files are huge. I have a 1MB tar.gz that's over 3MB as a .zip. Can
that really be right?

T.