How does Winzip work?

Just curious, since I know nothing about software compression.

This explains it quite well

http://www.howstuffworks.com/file-compression.htm

It zips things up.


OH! You mean 'How does it zip it up?'!

Look at zLib (infozip) for techy info on Huffman trees :D

The ZIP format is "chunked" which is why .tgz is smaller than .zip since ZIP files support random access to files.

See wotsit's format for more info :)

Hmm.. HowStuffWorks seems to be a cool site!!

I used it for my physics research :)

The Box network is quite a good site too. Doesn't help with zips, but worth a look

http://www.box.sk/

The page is in... ummm..... Sk (Svensk?), but the links up the top of the page all lead to English pages (the international ones).

I thought Box.sk was a ring of hacker sites?.. i know of some
sites like that, that end with box.sk

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I thought Box.sk was a ring of hacker sites?.. i know of some
sites like that, that end with box.sk

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do you know this:

http://www.astalavista.com

i think its very good...