On 30 May 97 at 5:55, sidhu saranjit s wrote:

 While .gz is the seen very frequently I think .zip is 
better with the windows and o/s and mac o/s so that is 

what 

I would recomend. Anybody disagree with me.? Certainly a 
decoder for zip is easier to find for the above operating 

systems although winzip will do both.

Rick
rik@cfanet.com

 
Gzip is a utility created by GNU.  It is freeware, and is mostly used on UNIX 
systems although there are ports for other operating systems, namely DOS.  
 
I would suspect that gzip is a much better compression utility for text than 
pkzip although I cannot corroborate this.  
 
Anyone want to comment on this ?

Here's the result of a quickie test I ran on a fanfic:

Original size:    463179 bytes
GZIP compressed:  172128 bytes
PKZIP compressed: 173365 bytes

As you can see, there isn't much difference at all.

AFAIK, they both use exactly the same compression algorithm, so the 
amount of compression should be similar.  The slightly larger size 
for the PKZIP archive is probably due to increased overhead, since 
the PKZIP file format is more flexible than the GZIP format. 


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