Re: PDF manual - about compression

on 26/07/01 09:45, Hojtsy Gabor at hojtsy.gabor@creativision.hu wrote: Hi, >Jim suggested at phpweb, that we should drop the .zip version sometime, >because Windows zip programs can handle .gz. I don't know that this is the >best time or not to do this... >.gz and .bz2 is needed IMHO :) Maybe we can drop .zip. Here is a share experience : when we first set up the offline documentation at Nexen, we had the same tought : what the heck about .zip? Gz is MUCH better compression (sometimes up to 3 times better and faster compression). So, we started without ZIP files. The next day, we had questions about how to handle .gz files. Then, we also started receiving email asking for documentation to be compressed. We finally added .zip files when people went crazy (complained that .gz was a bad format, that zip rules and that zip compress much better than gz). My point is : yes, most zip utilities handle gz and even tar.gz files with the same ease. But, no, people are not ready to see compressed files without the "zip" extension. I understand that this may not occur with our audience : this is mostly a warning. Best regards, Damien Seguy