Compressing Files

[joesil]

Hi,

I wanted to know what is the best program to compress files?
Right now i am using winrar, however when compressed the files are more or less the same size. Even with winzip, the files dont get compressed that much.

Thanks,
joesil

 

[smah]

What kind of files are you talking about - jpg? Some formats (like jpg) are already compressed and there is very little gain when trying to compress them further.

 

[joesil]

hi,

for examples just files that i would like to zip/rar... so it can fit on a disk or send by email.

thanks,
joesil

 

[dneufarth]

joesil,

i think smah is referring to the file extensions such as .jpg, .doc, .xls, .txt, .mdb, .bmp, .gif, etc.

Dave

 

[linney]

Splitting Zip files.

WinZip® makes it easy to create Zip files that are split into smaller pieces of a size that you specify. There are several reasons why you might want to do this, such as:

To overcome e-mail size limits. Some e-mail systems limit the size of attachments; if you want to e-mail a large Zip file that exceeds your limit, you can split it into smaller parts and e-mail them separately.
As an alternative to spanned Zip files when you want to make multiple copies of the disk set.
As an alternative to spanned Zip files when you want to make the disk contents as a separate step from making the disks themselves.
To assist with large downloads. Some users may have difficulty downloading very large Zip files from web sites, FTP sites, etc. You can use the split Zip feature to break large files into smaller pieces that can be downloaded separately.