Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/11/07/08:08:34
Hi!
Why don't you use tar before zipping DJGPP or
contributed packages?
It can give some savings of space needed for them
and reduce time of downloading.
Of course it'll be effective when used with
archives containing a big ammount of files which have
similar structure (i.e. all the source archives).
I'm connected to a network through a not very fast link,
so it would be great to me to save an hour or two when D/L
new version of DJGPP.
Few examples of space occupied by some archive files
oryginally and tared before packed:
Archive: Oryginally When TbP Ratio
DJDEV201 ZIP 1,538,083 1,332,193 86.6 %
DJLSR201 ZIP 1,460,733 881,996 60.4 % !
FIL313S ZIP 752,389 631,933 84.0 %
GRX20 ZIP 659,605 447,903 67.9 %
BNU27B ZIP 1,711,520 1,702,332 99.5 % :-(
GDBM173S ZIP 138,576 88,010 63.5 %
BCCGRX20 ZIP 347,920 289,646 83.2 %
(over 1.2MB saved on 7 files)
Sincerely Yours
Grzegorz Kolodziej
(don't even try to pronounce it)
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