Internal Compression

By default created patch files are internally compressed. The efficiency of this internal compression is better than with standard zip-tools, but might result into a larger archive if you need to deliver zip-files because compressing the internally compressed patch file will result into bigger archives. This is a typical problem with doing several compressions on a file and not specific to BinPatch.

But you may want to disable the internal compression when you create a zip file anyway. To deactivate internal compression specify option "-no-compression" on the GenPatch command line. The resulting plain patch file will be larger, but the externally compressed patch file archive might be smaller. In order to compare using "-no-compression -z" against the bare use of "-z", we recommend using the cache options so the patch information for the individual files needs not be recreated, but only your different storage options will apply.