With the Zipserver running you can browse zip archives without having to extract them. This is saving disc space, if you got a lot of huge HTML Documentations (like the Java API-Docs, which inspired me to write the zipserver). I'm saving more than one gigabyte hard-disk space at the moment.

The zipserver got a statistic function on HTML-Basis, which tells you how much space you are saving.

The real disk space required by extracted HTML Documentations depends on the file system you are using. A FAT-32 partition with more than eight gigabytes size got a block size of 8192 byte. This means each file, no matter how small, needs at least 8192 byte disk space. A file with 8200 byte size needs two block, so it uses 16384 byte disk space, and so on. Because HTML-Documentations consist of thousands of small files you do not only save space by compressing them as zip archive, you also save space because of the better use of the file systems blocks.

The block size for the statistics can be configured in the options dialog. I'll publish the block sizes of common file systems in a table later.

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Java Runtime Environment 1.2 (JRE)

The Zipserver needs the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) Version 1.2 or later. You can download the JRE from sun:

Download the JRE from Sun.

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History

• Made v1.8 beta final after a lot of tests.

• Smaller bug fixes and improvements.

• Fixed bugs occuring unter Linux.

• Improved search function.
• Localisation improved.

• First search function implements. Only one word per archive search possible.

• Implemented options dialog. The options dialog pops up, if no configuration file is found.
• Swing support (AWT can be used further on, but it's not included in the options dialog yet. If you need AWT, edit the Zipserver.properties file and set the entry server.showinfo to awt: server.showinfo=awt .

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