Re: bzip/zlib question

So does anyone have any advice on adding files rather than strings? On Fri, 31 May 2002, Michael Davey wrote: > I have been looking through the documentation for using Bzip2 or zlib > compression and have a couple of questions for the group... > > 1. Which is best to use on terms of: resultant file size, availability > of decompression clients & ease of use? File size: bzip2 wins, hands down Client availability: zlib wins, hands down Easy of use: tie. miguel > 2. Both bzip & zlib documentation makes use of *write() functions to add > strings to the file, but can this be used to add files? > > 3. I intend to add two or more zip files to the archive so that the > client only needs to download one file rather than several- which is most > suited to this - zlib or bzip2? > > Mikey