On 01/09/2010 16:34, Per Jessen wrote:
I'm looking for a compression tool (lzma, gzip, zip et al) with the following characteristics:
1. high compression ratio 2. multiple files per archive 3. very fast decompression/extraction of single files
Compression time is largely immaterial.
Sofar I've come up with plain old 'zip' which satisfies 2+3, but the compression ratio is not quite up there with e.g. lzma. For instance, on the same files, lzma can compress a cpio archive to 298Mb, whereas the zip-archive is 473Mb. It's a trade-off I'm willing to make (space is cheap), but I couldn't help wondering if there might be a zip-style compression utility with lzma compression ratios out there?
Back in the early-mid 1990s there was an archiver written which not only beat all other archivers hands down re compression but was also very fast. I was using it for my data. But at that time zip etc "ruled" the world and this archiver was kinda by-passed..... And do you think I can remember its name? :-( Perhaps someone will remember, and it would be nice to see if it is still alive. BC -- Vulgar language is the linguistic crutch of inarticulate people. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org