library.zip and 7zip

[Delaney, Timothy C (Timothy)]

Peter Hansen wrote:

> Delaney, Timothy C (Timothy) wrote:
> 
>> Jaco Smuts wrote:
>> 
>>> which works fine when I skip the 7z bit, but that breaks it?
>> 
>> 7z uses LZMA, which is a different compression method.
> 
> I was going to say the same thing, until I checked the
> 7zip web page and found that the -tzip option specifies
> a standard zip file, not the 7z format.  Interestingly,
> 7zip claims to improve on the compression ratio even
> for the standard format (e.g. about 7% better on the
> Canterbury Corpus file set).

Ah - I missed the -tzip option :( Hmm - so it *should* work -
technically.

Jaco - are you *absolutely* positive that you are using -tzip? Just in
case it's a simple mistake (typo, etc).

Tim Delaney