On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 20:40 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >
> > Was curious as to which utilities would offer the best compression ratio for
> > the kernel source, I thought it'd be bzip2 or rar but lzma wins, roughly 6 MiB
> > smaller than bzip2.
> >
> You forgot:
> - .7z 7zip
> - .j JAR (www.arjsoftware.com)
> - .ice LHICE (some sort of "brother" to lharc aka lzh)
> - .ace ACE (www.winace.com)
> - UPX (yes!, you just need to put '#!/\n' at the front)
> - .cab MS CAB (use winace)
> - .bh BlackHole
> - .pak PKARC 2.51
> - .sqz SqueezeIt
> - "LZEXE"
and also lzx, which was, in the amige days the best there was, allthough
i know of no compressor for linux
>
> ftp://camelot.spsl.nsc.ru/pub/win32/arc/ - you'll find some there
> happy packing :)
>
> > 38064 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.rz
>
> - is this rzip with _maximum_ distance?
>
>
> Jan Engelhardt
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