Denis Andreevich wrote:
Ok... ok... If you do not want use 7zip because it is win-app,
but why you don't want use "standard" tool like bzip2?

Now you're asking the right question.

openssl.org should consider offering sources in bzip2 format.
It would cut download time by 18%:
-rw-rw-r--    1 dank     dank      2609469 Sep  3 12:09 openssl-0.9.8.tar.bz2
-rw-rw-r--    1 dank     dank      3259550 Sep  3 12:08 openssl-0.9.8.tar.gz
Even winzip can understand tar.bz2 format these days.
- Dan

p.s.
And to be radical, I should note that some big sites are even swiching
solely to bzip2 format.
gcc.gnu.org recently even stopped offering downloads in tar.gz format
for new releases, and only uses tar.bz2: 
ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/releases/gcc-4.0.1/

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