From: Arlen Cuss <celtic@...>
Date: 2008-02-19T09:11:04+09:00
Subject: Re: OT: Why are .zip files so much bigger than tar.gz files?

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On Feb 19, 2008 10:53 AM, Trans <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?


Certainly can. The ZIP algorithm isn't as good as compressing things as the
gzip algorithm.  Have a look at bz2 -- it's typically even better than gzip.

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Arlen

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