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September 18th, 2003, 08:54 AM
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Re: New Mod, no place to post!
I suggest you get WinRar and use its Best RAR compression method. This should shave 10+ MBs off of your filesize.  You can add a measly 50 KB self-extracting module to the archive so that anyone can open it, and they do not need to have a non-crap archiving utility (WinZip being the mentioned crap  ) such as WinRar, WinAce, etc..
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September 18th, 2003, 04:16 PM
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Re: New Mod, no place to post!
Can you split it inro two zip files ?
Some Mods with heavy graphics are organized this way, Babylon5 mod has one zip for races and another is "core" files.
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September 18th, 2003, 06:18 PM
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Re: New Mod, no place to post!
However it gets done, I want to see it - especially those "spelljammer" ships!
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September 18th, 2003, 07:31 PM
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Re: New Mod, no place to post!
You can use WinRar (and 90% of archiving utilities) to create multi-part archive files, with custom-sized parts and all. But, I do not think WinZip can read them (and it certainly can not do this). This just splits the whole file into several smaller parts without having to pick yourself how to design them. Very convenient. Just one more reason to not use WinZip. |
September 18th, 2003, 10:16 PM
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Re: New Mod, no place to post!
Yes, WinRar is far superior to Zip. But nowdays, quality of the product is not as important as marketing. 
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September 18th, 2003, 10:54 PM
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Re: New Mod, no place to post!
Well, I tried Winrar, and it sure is impressive. It beat Winzip hands down, but still only got it to just a tad over 30MB. 
So, I've split it up into two zip files instead. Uploading now. Will post a new topic when it's ready.
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September 18th, 2003, 10:59 PM
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Re: New Mod, no place to post!
edit your first post and you can edit the topic.
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