On Sun, 21 Oct 2018 13:25:24 +0200, Martin wrote in message
<14421440.MIaJRJDx6e@merkaba>:

> Adam Borowski - 20.10.18, 22:54:
> > * zip is used by Windows folks only, similar to gzip.
>
> It is also used by LibreOffice (or under-maintained OpenOffice).
>
> […]
> > * 7z is similar but incompatible to xz; also a container rather
> > than a pure compressor.
>
> There can be benefits of container compressors like zip and 7z:
>
> Tar comes from Tape Archiver. It works sequential. So to dig out just
> one file it has to read over all the archive until that file comes.
>
> Zip instead has the contents directory at a central place, as far as
> I vaguely remember at the end of the file. That is one of the reasons
> OpenOffice developers back then chose it.
>
> Well of course there are other containers as well like dar for disk
> archiver.
>
> There is a crazy amount of tools in that area. I benchmarked some of
> them quite some time ago¹.
>
> [1] outdated, I wrote a Linux User article about those quite some
> time ago, the packbench program may still work tough and could be
> enhanced, adapted to support newer stuff:
> https://martin-steigerwald.de/computer/programme/packbench/index.html


..these tests packed/zipped coreutils-8.5.tar from here?:
https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=6301

> And yeah, I know Gitorius is gone and I intend to upload everything
> to Gitlab at some time.
>


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