[Wolves] compression formats

[Alan Pope]

On 19/09/05, roundyz <roundyz at hotpop.com> wrote:
> hi all,
> 
> whats the best compression out of the following....
> 
> .gz
> .bz2
> .tar
> .tar.gz
> .tar.bz2
> .zip
> 

tar isn't compressed, so really you're comparing gz, bz2 and zip.

I'd say in general bz2 is better, yes, but it depends what you're compressing..

Of course you could just test it and find out?

Cheers,
Al.