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".
Last edited by Eddaweaver on Thu Jun 07, 2012 3:35 am, edited 4 times in total.
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.
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...).
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.
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.
.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.
