Results 1 to 11 of 11
-
05-15-2004, 01:50 PM #1Web Hosting Master
- Join Date
- Aug 2002
- Posts
- 1,212
Best compression format/software?
I have several 100MB pure text files. Normally, I use zip format and get get it down to about 20mb after compression.
However, yesterday I was looking my website's logs and found it to be about 500kb in gz format and when unzipped, whopping 50MB! Must be some amazing compression algorhythm.
Is anyone aware of a windows compression tool to give me similar kind of compression? I've tried several that do gz compression, but the end result is no where close to the % of compression my log files were.
Any help appreciated.
-
05-15-2004, 01:56 PM #2Web Hosting Master
- Join Date
- May 2003
- Location
- Kirkland, WA
- Posts
- 4,448
RAR is the best compression most widely used on Windows, RZIP is the best compression period...that's only if you're looking at compression, if you factor in CPU time and what not...it's a different story
Give 7Zip a try, it does 7 different types of compression for windows:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/s...3.exe?download
-
05-15-2004, 02:03 PM #3Retired Moderator
- Join Date
- Aug 2003
- Location
- Pittsburgh
- Posts
- 3,490
I'll have to give that a try Nick, but I love using PowerArchiver: http://www.powerarchiver.com
Handles all compression formats I know of, including TAR and GZIPs.
-
05-15-2004, 02:20 PM #4Web Hosting Master
- Join Date
- Feb 2004
- Posts
- 558
I second powerarchiver, been using it for years, it's wonderful.
-
05-15-2004, 06:44 PM #5Disabled
- Join Date
- May 2004
- Posts
- 3
I'd say WinZip. But how to archive GZ files?
-
05-15-2004, 07:45 PM #6Newbie
- Join Date
- Nov 2003
- Posts
- 12
WinRar is good.
Looks kinda shabby but it does the job real good.www.webhostforum.org
-
05-15-2004, 07:56 PM #7Web Hosting Master
- Join Date
- Aug 2002
- Posts
- 1,212
With all those apps, I am still not able to get the level of compression I see my log files are compressed at
Can anyone shed any light specifically on that? My log files are about 50mb and come out about 500kb when gz'd. Of course, I dont do it; it's autodone and placed in the logfiles folder. Right now a 20mb file comes down to about 3-4mb in almost any given compression scheme.
-
05-15-2004, 08:42 PM #8Web Hosting Master
- Join Date
- Feb 2002
- Posts
- 985
try bzip2 (I'm sure there is a windows port) - it compresses stuff better than gzip, but it takes more time as well.
regards,
M.Powered by AMD & FreeBSD.
"Documentation is like sex:
when it is good, it is very, very good;
and when it is bad, it is better than nothing."
-
05-15-2004, 08:48 PM #9Web Hosting Master
- Join Date
- Mar 2004
- Location
- England
- Posts
- 819
NetHosted - UK based hosting solutions.
-
05-15-2004, 10:59 PM #10Web Hosting Master
- Join Date
- Jul 2002
- Location
- UK
- Posts
- 2,027
I'm partial to SitX personally. Seems to decompress much faster on PowerPC than x86 though.
Gone.
-
05-16-2004, 02:39 AM #11Web Hosting Guru
- Join Date
- May 2004
- Location
- Singapore
- Posts
- 263
try bzip2 (I'm sure there is a windows port) - it compresses stuff better than gzip, but it takes more time as well.
Handles all compression formats I know of, including TAR and GZIPs.#include<cstdio>
char*s="#include<cstdio>%cchar*s=%c%s%c;%cint main(){std::printf(s,10,34,s,34,10);}";
int main(){std::printf(s,10,34,s,34,10);}