Topic 39 of 395: Compression Apps - general discussion
Wed, Jul 24, 1996 (10:12) |
Paul Terry Walhus (terry)
The Compression Utilities section of The CWS Apps List is
designed to showcase the wide variety of archiving/unarchiving
clients available on the 'net. In addition to the common
PKZip/PKUnzip (*.zip) format, typical archived file formats include
GZip, TAR (Tape Archive Retrieval), Z (another UNIX-based
format), LZH, ARJ, and ARC. While there are several
self-extracting archival clients currently available (which means you
won't need a decompression utility on your side to unarchive the
file), the majority of the apps currently available on the 'net are in an
archive format listed above. Many new users ask the sensible
question of why all these formats are necessary - in fact why is
compression at all important? Archives make grouping a collection
of files together easy and make transporting and copying these files
(especially over the 'net) faster (as a result of the overall smaller file
size). For these reasons, many files are found in archived format on
the 'net, on BBSes, and on popular online services. If you're going
to be downloading or uploading files on a regular basis, then you
are definitely going to need one of the Windows clients below in
order to make the process as easy and efficient as possible.
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Topic 39 of 395 [apps]: Compression Apps - general discussion
Response 1 of 1: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Wed, May 28, 1997 (08:10) * 15 lines
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