.zip vs .tar.gz

[David Bainbridge]

You may also want to take a look at BetterZip from http://macitbetter.com/ 
.
BetterZip supports both RAR and 7-zip (as well as many others), both  
of which provide high compression.  Which format is better depends on  
what is being compressed.

On Mar 28, 2008, at 6:19 PM, J. Todd Slack wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I have a bunch of old data that I want to compress up but still keep  
> on my system.
>
> So .zip vs .tar.gz?
>
> Which will produce a smaller archive?
>