.zip compression tip for your Tain submissions

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.zip compression tip for your Tain submissions

Post by Eddaweaver »

Use 7-Zip ( http://www.7-zip.org/ ) when compressing your plugin into a .zip archive as it gives better compression than Winzip.

The following shows the optimal settings

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A Mac OSX port is available here
http://www.kekaosx.com/en/

Remember, create a standard .zip file: only use the "Deflate" compression method as some applications can't open zips which were compressed using "Deflate64" or "BZip2".
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Post by gugusm »

Well, I think that in most cases it just doesn't matter whether your file is 10 or 12 mb big, but it's still good to have such a tool.
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Post by Eddaweaver »

2mb = 7minutes download in dialup, ~1 minute average on broadband.
Around 50%+ are on dialup.
Your theoretical submission downloaded 300 times from The Tain would mean around 20 hours of wasted time downloading the extra 2mb and an extra 600mb+ of bandwidth use.
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Post by Death's Avatar »

Eddaweaver wrote:2mb = 7minutes download in dialup, ~1 minute average on broadband.
Around 50%+ are on dialup.
Your theoretical submission downloaded 300 times from The Tain would mean around 20 hours of wasted time downloading the extra 2mb and an extra 600mb+ of bandwidth use.
Remember: ZIPS! Always always do zips. Remember: 7z is BAD FOR BABIES. Zips are good.

(Sharps instructions produce zips, but just make sure...).
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Post by qwarqwa »

Speaking which can someone convert all those .sit archives, I cant open those even with stuffit for windows
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Post by Myrd »

Which?
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Post by Zeph »

hell, i couldnt even expand .sit on my brand new mac. It seems stuffit expander is not free anymore. If anyone can proove me wrong I'd appreciate!
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Post by Eddaweaver »

The free version can still be downloaded but they now require your full name and email address.

I think all entries on The Tain in .sit should be recompressed to .zip. Stuffit has become an archaic, inaccessible format and has always been a difficulty to deal with.

http://www2.jsonline.com/news/state/may ... 52000a.asp
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Post by Death's Avatar »

Eddaweaver wrote:The free version can still be downloaded but they now require your full name and email address.
Has for a few years now.

Your point is quite true though, but as myrd said, "which?"

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Post by Baak »

Can the tain db be searched for .sit files in whatever column holds the archive name? :)

(.sit is evil, evil, evil)
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Yeah, .sit is evil.
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Post by Zeph »

I recently approved the bushido pack on The Tain and I figured after that it was a .rar, perhaps this one needs rezipping too :)
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Post by vinylrake »

.sit RULZ!

I can't wait for the day that the evil empire of zippness falls crashing around your competing incompatible not-quite-cross-platform-zip formatted feet and stuffit re-ascends to it's rightful place as ruler of the file compression pantheon.

i lurv .sits.
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Post by Pyro »

RAR is my choice for compression, but in all things Myth I use ZIP since it is easy for any user to get ahold of it.
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Post by TarousZars »

.sit actually works better in OS 9 because it preserves resource information that .zip doesn't. However this is really only important for OS 9 applications. All plugins should be .zip.
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