On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Eduardo Morras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In fact deflate/zip is 18-19 years old and there are lot of better > compression algorithm, like LZX. I think there is one implemented in Pascal > (ABC if memory don't fails).
I'm still trying to find a compression algorithm that beats whatever 7-zip uses. The results are by magnitudes smaller than any other compression algorithm I have seen. The important thing for TZipFile component is that the archive format must compresses every file separately. Otherwise you can't extract a specific file without unpacking everything first. The other thing is the algorithms need to be free and supporting Unicode. 7-zip's LZMA does pass both requirements. I'm just not sure if it compresses filed separately - I would imagine it can/does. Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
