Hallo, Steffen!

*** Am Montag 29. Juli 1996 um 11:20 schrieb Steffen Offermann an Peter Fitzsimmons:

 SO> There is only one reason, but this one is crucial: ARJ has
 SO> by far the better compression algorithm. Only RAR beats it
 SO> in several situations. ZIP is usually not worth mentioning.

Use two runs of ZIP, one with zip -0 to just store all files in
an archive, and _then_ run zip -9. This gives great compression,
since the lookup tables can get much bigger, which is a lot more
efficient.

Alternatively, use tar with gzip. tar first appends all data to
one big chunk, then gzip compresses "overall".


Tschau...Thomas

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