Re: KDE compression options: tar, zip, or rar

[Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>]

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 11:27:21PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > * Prep test data (some file to be packed)
> > * run command under "time" command
> >
> > $ time tar -czf testout.tar.gz ./test-data
> >
> > real    0m0.520s
> > user    0m0.480s
> > sys     0m0.040s
> >
> > $ time zip -rq testout.zip ./test-data
> >
> > real    0m0.474s
> > user    0m0.460s
> > sys     0m0.016s
> >
> > Simple! Do this with uncompress too.
> >
> > Command syntax of each command is found in each man pages.
> >
> > time can be shell builtin or independent command.
> >
> 
> Thank you Osamu but I stress that compression / decompression time is
> not important for this application. That is why I asked on the list
> what the other advantages and disadvantages of the different formats
> are.

Hmmm....  then stick with tar.gz since it is supported
everywhere on unix.

There are tools for interoperability and native tools. ...

Osamu