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Date:	Thu, 18 Mar 1999 22:18:43 +0000
From:	Allens <allen DOT asjp AT cableol DOT co DOT uk>
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To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: (fwd) Compression
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Reply-To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com

I'm sure I heard somewhere that tgz's are based around the same 
algorithm as zips, so why the mega space saving?  (Perhaps because
they use a different algorithm?)

			Peter Allen

DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> > Would it really be hard to have each package stored in more than one
> > format, such as a regular gzip'd/bzip2'd tarball for Linuxians, a
> > PkZip-compatible .zip for Microsoftians, etc.?
> 
> First off, I don't produce *every* zip in djgpp.  Many are contributed
> by others.
> 
> Second, djgpp is currently (quick typing) 288Mb.  Supporting multiple
> formats is NOT an option, just because of disk space.
> 
> The only format I'd consider switching to is .tar.gz, which djtar can
> unpack, but even then we'd have to provide a 16-bit version of djtar
> that supports LFNs, since tgz isn't a standard format in dos/windows.
> 
> file    zip     tgz
> djdev   1.42M   1.36M
> djlsr   1.45M   0.87M

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