Re: [Freedos-devel] 7Zip

[Georg P. <ma...@ge...>]

I observed that 7zip provides a better compression than ZIP. The CD image of 
my Graphical FreeDOS distribution XFDOS "xfdos.iso" is 63.2 MB uncompressed. 
ZIP compresses this to 53.1 MB while 7z compresses it to 27.1 MB, almost 
half of that. See here:

http://code.google.com/p/nanox-microwindows-nxlib-fltk-for-dos/downloads/list

Not all files are compressed that much better with 7zip but this CD image 
does not compress well with ZIP. I used the compression tools on Windows XP.

Georg