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| Red Squirrel - Sep-18-2004 server time |
| Yeah was using it a bit here and there but I've been using it way more lately for archiving stuff. Imagine this, I could fit 10 gigs of logs or other text files on a CD with bh! |
| jryan - Sep-18-2004 server time |
| Haha! You've converted at last! I've been using BH for almost two years now... I was waiting for a new convert to the fold. lol. |
| Red Squirrel - Sep-18-2004 server time |
| yep! From my experience anyway. Only thing is that it's slow like I mentioned, and not allot of programs support it since it's not really well known. I use power archiver which has winzip and most other utlities beat in terms of supported formats and features. |
| wldkos - Sep-18-2004 server time |
crap  , that's 4 gigs down to 300 mb! Is this safe? |
| Red Squirrel - Sep-17-2004 server time |
| Yeah tried it, and black hole is better. 7-zip is faster though which is good for normal compression, but for archiving smaller = better. When I need to compress like over 20 gigs I usually just let it on overnight since it can take like an hour so I don't want to sit there with a slow PC for that long. This particular compression took about 15-20 minutes. |
| Chris Vogel - Sep-17-2004 server time |
Dear namespaces! That is quite good.  Have you tried the 7-Zip format? I was under the impression that it had a higher compression ratio, but I haven’t really compared the two. |
| Red Squirrel - Sep-17-2004 server time |
| Check out this crazy compression! It's all text files, but that's still pretty good. |
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