On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Vincent Snijders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And at the same time, that is its weak point for packing a large number of > similar documents, like the LCL documentation. It only compresses one > document at a time, so it cannot use the information of previous documents > for compressing. So it is nice for on disk compression, but less valuable > for distribution purposes, see also Marco's numbers.
See my previous reply. Clearly there is a 7-zip implementation for Object Pascal (delphi) that we could possibly use. Correct - "solid archive" enabled (one stream for all files) makes a huge difference with the final archive size. Good news is that even with solid archive enabled, 7-zip allows reading a specific file without decompressing the whole archive. Total Commander's 7-zip plugin allows for this. And 7-zip beat the CHM compression numbers by far (see numbers in my previous post). Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
