Re: OFF: ZIP vs GZ was:Re: [f-cpu] F-CPU vs ALPHA

[Andreas Romeyke <art1@it-netservice.de>]

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Hello,

On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Yann Guidon wrote:

> algorithm (Burrow-Wheeler). The utilisty is provided with Un*x (bzip2)

I know about and I use it.

> but it is not yet widely available under other platforms :-(
> ie : winzip doesn't use it yet. it's a shame : bz2 files often get 20% better
> compression than tgz.

bzip2 is availöable as Source and you can compile it under gcc for dos.

Tzip is similar to bzip2 but with larger blocks.
Very cool was bzip (the thing before bzip2), it uses arithmetic
compression instead huffman, and compresses so 2-5 percent points smaller.

Bye Andreas
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