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Best Compression Program? What's the best Zip program now? Is it bzip2? or 7-Zip perhaps? Are there any others? I know both are better than WinZip. Using 7-Zip on my install program (instead of WinZip) I save about 500k. Not bad.
Zip
Have you considered WinRAR or WinACE?
Gabriel Landau
Just out of curiousity, why do you need the zip? In this era of broadband and writable DVDs, it's rare you really need to squeeze that extra bit of compression out of anything.
www.MarkTAW.com
I second winrar. I can rar a 16 gb database small enough to burn on a cd.
Formerly someone else
Define "better".
Chris Tavares
Not everyone is on broadband!
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WinRAR rocks.
www.alexlechuck.com
WinRAR compress more but it's is _very_ slow.
Nix
"I can rar a 16 gb database small enough to burn on a cd."
www.MarkTAW.com
as far as i know best of mainstream is [win]rar3+.
killer
Bandwidth is about 5 cents/GB.
Reply to "Best Compression Program?"
Also a good point, but then ZIP would probably be the only way to go because it's the only format with the proper market pentration. Unless you bundle an unzipper in your app and package it as an install.exe, of course.
www.MarkTAW.com
Maybe http://rzip.samba.org/ can be useful if the files are realy big. If you have the RAM and time to spend..
Fredrik Svensson
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