new compression format : 7zip

[gkweb]

Hi,

I don't know if you know it, but personally i have just heard of it this week.
7zip is a new compression format which beats by far existing ZIP and RAR compression methods.

I have done a test with 57 files, 32.6MB :

ZIP -> 10.7MB (max compression ratio)
7ZIP-> 3.59MB (max compression ratio)

Compression ratio better by 66.5% (for these particular files).

Official website:
http://www.7-zip.org/

7zip supports other common format like ZIP and RAR, and is FREE :)

regards,

gkweb.

[Riverwind]

Not news to me.,

[gkweb]

Hi guest riverwind,

i'm glad for you, that's anyway a fact that it isn't widely used and not even known, at least among all people I know, just one was knowing it :)

and besides that, good "bump" riverwind ;)

regards,

gkweb.

[notageek]

This is news to me gkweb. Thanks for the info.

[Paranoid2000]

I only came across 7-zip recently myself and that was after having used Google extensively to find a general purpose extractor. As such, threads like this are always welcome and I would commend GKWeb for sharing his experience.

For those interested, also consider ZipGenius (www.zipgenius.it) (also free but not GPL) - it supports the 7-zip format but can also extract RAR and ACE archives (7-zip cannot extract ACE) which may make it more useful to those who download ACE files.

[Riverwind]

Anything that does not support 7zip nowdays is outdated. Of course, the masses are still unaware of this.

IZarc is pretty good too.

[Shelb]

gkweb,
Thank you for pointing this out! I was unaware of it and will definately use it!
-Shelby