Looking for Extraction tools for 7z and Shrinkler

[nyteschayde]

I recently compiled rzip and uploaded it to Aminet. With a little effort, I could probably get it to compile without ixemul.library as well. I have found that using lha in place of tar (simply because tar is not common on the Amiga) and storing, not compressing, the files, followed by rziping the resulting archive produces massive savings.

For the ADE repack I uploaded, previously compressed with zip, the archive went from 20MB to 13MB using this technique. Something to consider.

[nyteschayde]

I'd love to have a look at it if you compile it to be library/fpu independent and 68000 compatible.

I did get quite the saving when storing all before archiving it in a second pass with 7z however 7zdec req. too much memory to extract that so guess it's not just the "blocksize" but rather what fits in that block that is the key to memoryusage with 7zdec's routines.

I may have time this weekend to make a pass. I'll see what I can do.