[Cialug] Good File Compression Format For The Muggles?

[Jared Brees]

If the compression isn't a high enough ratio, pick what you want, and just tell the Windows user they'll need 7-zip to open it. There aren't a lot of options. Test it on a Windows system you own first, and send the instructions to the user.


Jared Brees<http://me.relatedtotechnology.org/> - Squirrel Photographer<http://squirrels.relatedtotechnology.org/>


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From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org <cialug-bounces at cialug.org> on behalf of Scott Yates <Scott at yatesframe.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 2:20 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Good File Compression Format For The Muggles?

You are probably stuck with .zip for the everyday windows user.  Even then
they likely don't understand that it is not really a folder of files, as
windows presents it that way.

On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 1:35 PM, Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm curious. What file compression formats do you have good luck with
> sending to people? I know that a client running Windows would be almost
> certainly sure to be able to open a Windows-compressed zip file. But I
> sometimes need better compression than that. When I send gzip zipped files
> (.tar.gz) I usually get back "my app says your file is corrupted, dude".
> bzip2 isn't much better than gzip. What else? 7zip? Avoid non-default
> options?
>
> By the way, I found this informative page:
> https://blogs.reucon.com/srt/compression-gzip-vs-bzip2-vs-7-zip-8296/
>
> === Method...Size...Ratio...CompSpeed...DecompSpeed
> === gzip 89MB 54% 0m13s 0m05s
> === bzip2 81MB 49% 1m30s 0m20s
> === 7-zip 61MB 37% 1m48s 0m11s
>
> --
> Todd
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