smaller zip-like format?

[Ian Bicking]

On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 00:13, David Garamond wrote:
> Does anyone know of an open format for compressed archive like zip, but 
> with greater compression ratio for lots of small (1K-4K) files, while 
> still maintaining relative ease for extracting member files from the 
> archive? I'm looking for something like Microsoft's CHM format. Python 
> binding is not a must, I'll probably write the binding if it doesn't exist.

A tar archive compressed with bzip2, perhaps?  I haven't tested them,
but .tar.gz seems to consistently come out better than zip, and bzip2 is
consistently better than gzip.  And there's Python bindings!

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