4.5 Omegas

On Wed, 19 May 2004 16:15:26 GMT, Inglo
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 >Why the heck are they in CAB file format?

Apparently to keep the size down. Some of the download mirrors can be
notoriously slow and many people are still on dialup.

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Inglo <ingloogoo DeleteThis @zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.xcc> wrote in message news:<yKLqc.69067$Mb.28840@newssvr25.news.prodigy.com>...
 > On 5/19/2004 5:14 AM Julian Richards brightened our day with:
 >
  > >I've not noticed any threads about the latest Omega drivers. They seem
  > >stable enough but don't make much of a difference for me (no problems
  > >before and no problems after, so I shouldn't grumble). The update
  > >seems to be aimed at fixing problems with other people's cards
  > >(mobility Radeons etc.)
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  > >
  > >
 > Why the heck are they in CAB file format?

Will CAB is a compression format standardly inbuild in windows. And
the cab is 16-17Mb while the EXE once extracted is 19Mb ...so it does
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On 20 May 2004 02:21:20 -0700, superxml.DeleteThis@yahoo.com (Dark Avenger)
wrote:


 >Will CAB is a compression format standardly inbuild in windows. And
 >the cab is 16-17Mb while the EXE once extracted is 19Mb ...so it does
 >work!

I just compressed the exe into zip and rar to see the difference.
zip=18.6mb
rar=16.8mb
cab=16.8mb

Considering that everyone has .cab file support built into windows
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Throw in the .ace 2.0 format

As for .cab, it is owned by microsoft. I think that's got to do with not
much distributions.


"Allan Sheely" <NO.TakeThisOut@MAIL.HERE> wrote in message
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 > On 20 May 2004 02:21:20 -0700, superxml.TakeThisOut@yahoo.com (Dark Avenger)
 > wrote:
 >
 >
  > >Will CAB is a compression format standardly inbuild in windows. And
  > >the cab is 16-17Mb while the EXE once extracted is 19Mb ...so it does
  > >work!
 >
 > I just compressed the exe into zip and rar to see the difference.
 > zip=18.6mb
 > rar=16.8mb
 > cab=16.8mb
 >
 > Considering that everyone has .cab file support built into windows
 > it's surprising that more people don't use .cab.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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Allan Sheely <NO.TakeThisOut@MAIL.HERE> wrote in message news:<95lpa0pdg7gagkl5g8hi5qds0qsfaiuvni.TakeThisOut@4ax.com>...
 > On 20 May 2004 02:21:20 -0700, superxml.TakeThisOut@yahoo.com (Dark Avenger)
 > wrote:
 >
 >
  > >Will CAB is a compression format standardly inbuild in windows. And
  > >the cab is 16-17Mb while the EXE once extracted is 19Mb ...so it does
  > >work!
 >
 > I just compressed the exe into zip and rar to see the difference.
 > zip=18.6mb
 > rar=16.8mb
 > cab=16.8mb
 >
 > Considering that everyone has .cab file support built into windows
 > it's surprising that more people don't use .cab.

Lets Try Uharc
ALZ:3 ( maximum but oh so ... long wait ) = 16.8Mb ... well I guess
that proves that the EXE file can downsized unto about 16.8mb

Ya know, all those compression tools use different algoritms and work
better on different kind of files. Uharc for instance is great for
compression certain media and ..indeed for Games and alike...

Here is a review online
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Quoth The Raven "Dark Avenger" <superxml.DeleteThis@yahoo.com> in
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 > Allan Sheely <NO.DeleteThis@MAIL.HERE> wrote in message
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  >> On 20 May 2004 02:21:20 -0700, superxml.DeleteThis@yahoo.com (Dark Avenger)
  >> wrote:
  >>
  >>
   >>> Will CAB is a compression format standardly inbuild in windows. And
   >>> the cab is 16-17Mb while the EXE once extracted is 19Mb ...so it
   >>> does work!
  >>
  >> I just compressed the exe into zip and rar to see the difference.
  >> zip=18.6mb
  >> rar=16.8mb
  >> cab=16.8mb
  >>
  >> Considering that everyone has .cab file support built into windows
  >> it's surprising that more people don't use .cab.
 >
 > Lets Try Uharc
 > ALZ:3 ( maximum but oh so ... long wait ) = 16.8Mb ... well I guess
 > that proves that the EXE file can downsized unto about 16.8mb
 >
 > Ya know, all those compression tools use different algoritms and work
 > better on different kind of files. Uharc for instance is great for
 > compression certain media and ..indeed for Games and alike...
 >
 > Here is a review online
 >
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.flexbeta.net/main/articles.php?action=show&id=58&perpage=1&pagenum=1" target="_blank">http://www.flexbeta.net/main/articles.php?action=show&id=58&perpage=1&pagenum=1</a>

I got hold of an office 2003 disk (copy) that has every office application
on the one CD, extracting isn't successful as many files fail to copy, but
when you have most of the files on the hdd, it amounts to 1.5gig from a
650mb disk, you can view the files and install correctly, so what kind of
compression is used here? its invisible compression that acts on the fly as
you use the files...

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