Yeah, zipmax comes configured for 7zip (www.7-zip.com). 7zip is open source, but I don't see a linux port on his sourceforge page. I ran a quick comparison on Metal Slug 3 roms:
bhg:/tmp/mslug3> du -h *.zip 77M mslug3-7zip.zip 77M mslug3-linux.zip 77M mslug3-win.zip bhg:/tmp/mslug3> dir *.zip 78072 -rw-r--r-- 1 nick nick 79857570 Mar 18 15:16 mslug3-7zip.zip 78812 -rw-r--r-- 1 nick nick 80616929 Mar 18 14:41 mslug3-linux.zip 78812 -rw-r--r-- 1 nick nick 80616385 Mar 18 14:45 mslug3-win.zip Now compression ratios change based on the file content your compressing. Keeping that in mind, this may not be a totally fair comparison, since I only tried one very large romset. In this case I used 'zip -9' under Linux (Zip 2.3), In Winzip (8.1) I told it to use maximum compression, and for 7zip I used '7za -tzip foo.zip files -mx'. In this comparison, the difference is somewhat negligable. If someone wants to take the time to do a random sampling of Mame roms and make some kind of chart comparing the three archivers, I'd be interested to see if there is any major advantage to re-zipping all your Mame roms with 7zip. -nick >From: Christopher Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [Xmame] winzip >Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 13:16:12 -0800 > >On Monday 18 March 2002 11:30 am, you wrote: > > I have seen notes on various web pages that lead me to believe that >winzip > > is capable of creating zip files with slightly better compression than > > Linux/Unix zip can. > > > > Does anyone know why? The documentation included with this (Windows) > > program makes interesting reading: > > http://www.mameworld.net/clrmame/zipmax0351.zip > > > >I think he uses 7zip which AFAIK is open-source and probably has a linux >version available. > >_______________________________________________ >Xmame mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://toybox.twisted.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/xmame _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com _______________________________________________ Xmame mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://toybox.twisted.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/xmame
