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Well you use the short form to compress and the long form to decompress, e.g. gzip2 and gunzip2, how good are they compared to the windows tools?

Not too good, have a look at gzip, bzip2 in the webpage below. Believe it or not, but compression is one of those application types where all research ...

Nik wrote:Cant find gunzi/gunzip2 or bunzip2? do you only test windows software?

Yes, I test only programs that run under windows. But many of the *nix programs are ported to Windows. I did test Gzip, Bzip2 etc.

The programs you mention are decompressors, not the actual compressors.

THCM wrote:Hi Werner! I like your page very much! How did you get here?

Thanks!. I had a look at the log files to see where the visitors of my site are comming from. I saw a lot of refering sites I did not know, this was one of them...

Just take a look here: http://www.maximumcompression.com/
WinRK and Paq8 are the best compressors when size matters. KGB isn't as good as the best. There is also a nice comparison ranked on efficiency where WinRAR is one of the best.

In fact KGB is just an older version of PAQ (PAQ6v2) with a ...