Re: Automate zip archives
Re: Automate zip archives
- Subject: Re: Automate zip archives
- From: Richard 23 <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 01:15:54 -0800
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>ZipIt
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>often (but not always) produces smaller archives than DropStuff or
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>StuffIt Commands
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That would only happen IF you have changed the default
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settings in ZipIt for compression level, but didn't do the same for
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StuffIt. The default is 6 in both, but can also be changed in both -
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and on a script by script basis with StuffIt Commands.
I didn't catch this the first time but it's also true that ZipIt
tosses the resource fork if you have it set up that way. That
would be one reason for the ZipIt archives being smaller.
Not better compression. Less data!
R23