You Use Slow Dial-up?

[freeman]

For those who use slow dial-up connections and like to send big files easily I suggest: KGB ARCHIEVER

It can make, example, Office 600MB to 10MB!!!

Try

[phazey]

uhm......

with a compression ratio like that, i'd expect 600MB of whitespace. please back up your claim with numbers..........

sounds like a root kit tbh.

Edited November 19, 2006 by phazey

[freeman]

To know more and to be sure, have a look at below link:

http://kgbarchiver.sourceforge.net/

It is a wonderfull zipper.

[cdnvic]

You won't find malware at sourceforge, however....

You cannot use this program without alot of computing power, and to get the maximum claimed compression you would in fact need an array of processors. This is nothing that other zip utilities couldn't do if they wanted to make wild and impractical claimes. With normal processing power this program is only as good as any other archiver out there. If you can afford a quad-core processor to make it even marginally more effective, you can afford a fast dsl or cable connection.

I'd give it a miss. It's over hyped.

[The Coder]

This is something I always enjoy following. Every 5 years or so someone claims to have come up with an unimaginably great compression algorithm putting everyone on the edge of their seat. I ran KGB with Maximum compression enabled against an arbitrary JPG photo and it reduced the size by 2%, LOL! Yes, it shrank out a measely 20K on a 1MB file. I tested a few other file types and it's SLIGHTLY better than ZIP level 9--SLIGHTLY. Not worth the proprietary file type. The problem is that todays hard drives are by and large filled with already compressed files (music, photos, and videos are already compresed). These don't compress much so not much advantage using compressors.

[freeman]

I noted it is because of my 2GB RAM that I can zip great.

For those using 256 or 512 MB Ram, it doesnt make much difference!