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- From: cescript@physerver (Charles Scripter)
- Subject: Re: zipsplit with pkzip204c Was: Re: Unix release? (Was etc.
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 06:00:51 GMT
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- Mark Adler (madler@cco.caltech.edu) wrote:
-
- > The Info-zip version tries to optimize the chunks as well, unless you
- > ask it not to. Perhaps the difference is that the other zipsplit has
- > options with built-in sizes for the common floppy sizes, where Info-zip's
- > zipsplit requires that you provide the number of bytes to be used on the
- > media.
-
- Actually, the advantage I found with J. Holm's zipsplit is it allows
- on to split *directly* to floppy; One need not force the zip file to
- devour *twice* the diskspace of the zip file, before moving to floppy.
-
- > Or perhaps you think that the other zipsplit optimizes the chunks
- > better. [...]
-
- I haven't noticed any difference in the efficiency between the 2
- programs. The only annoying feature of J. Holm's zipsplit is the
- inability to force sequential (non-optimal) splits... Info-Zip's does
- this (but as I pointed out above, Info-Zip's doesn't split directly
- onto floppy). I often zip up data files which are sorted by date, and
- I find it *very* annoying to have them shuffled when I split to disk.
-
- Each of these programs have strong and weak points. I used
- either/both depending on current my needs. The multi-volume Info-Zip
- should eliminate most of the need for these zipsplit programs... :-)
-
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- Charles Scripter * cescript@phy.mtu.edu
- Dept of Physics, Michigan Tech University, Houghton, MI 49931
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- separated." Thomas Jefferson, 1821
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