Need your advice...which compression should I use?

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
May 11, 2003

Trevor, Brendan, Dan, Bill, Angus, Ingvild, everyone!
Thanks for your tech support.... Fast and detailed...So ZIP will be our
format on our sites from now on...

In the past, I would post the same files in several compressioin
formats on the web, but if I eliminate the duplicate files in other
compression formats, only leaving the ZIP files, then that will free up
a lot of space on our web sites, which have become rather over-jammed
lately...so this is a welcome policy decision. Thank you!

Val ;-)



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On Sunday, May 11, 2003, at 10:19 AM, Ingvild Roald wrote:

> Agreed, .zip is preferable.  .exe will start a program running, and is
> not
> good for things other than programs that are to run (at leat, that is
> how
> I understand it),
>
> Ingvild
>
>
>
> SW-L at ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA writes:
>> On Sun, 11 May 2003, Valerie Sutton <sutton at SIGNWRITING.ORG> wrote:
>>
>>> Therefore I need to know...what compression software works best for
>>> you?
>>>
>>> ..exe (Windows only)
>>> ..zip  (Mac and Windows)
>>> ..sit   (Mac and Windows)
>>>
>>> Any other suggestions?
>>
>> There are some others, which happen to provide better compression
>> than any
>> of the above, but they are widely used on Microsoft platforms.
>>
>>> What amazes me, is how easy it is, to use .exe on Windows. It makes
>>> me
>>> wonder why people prefer .zip...there has to be a reason. What is it?
>>
>> ZIP == portability. Works on every platform: Mac, Micorosft Windows
>> and
>> MS-DOS, and UNIX. Also ZIP is the basis of the JAR format expected by
>> the Java programming environment. Whatever virtues Microsoft EXE
>> files may
>> appear to have ZIP is preferable.
>>
>> Regards, Trevor
>>
>> <>< Re: deemed!
>>
>