Assuming .bz2 and bzip2 format are the same. I did following test. Downloaded http://umn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gaim/gaim-0.67.tar.bz2 (mirrors at http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gaim/gaim-0.67.tar.bz2?download )
unzipped and re-zipped 7-Zip format. and here are the numbers gaim-0.67.tar.bz2 - 2.79 MB ( 2,934,003 bytes ) gaim-0.67.tar - 15.0 MB ( 15,728,640 bytes ) gaim-0.67.7z - 2.10 MB ( 2,210,044 bytes ) 24.67 % more than bz2 When I compare zip & 7z format I get average of 25% advantage. So bzip2 being a better format 24.67 % should be little high --- Marcel Telka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 28.08.2003 09:13, Biju G C wrote: > > 7-Zip an application made by Igor Pavlov ( http://7-zip.org/ ) > > gives a very high compression ratio. > > The homepage contains comparison between 7-zip and another windows > compression programs, but it lacks comparison with bzip2... > > Is the compression ratio for 7-zip better than bzip2? > > > Regards. > > -- > +-------------------------------------------+ > | Marcel Telka e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > | homepage: http://telka.sk/ | > | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > +-------------------------------------------+ > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > ________________________________________________________________________ Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
