Best Settings For 7zip And What Do They Mean?

[Mikep7779]

I was zipping up 6 gigs of gfc's, and didnt know what some of the settings in 7zip did auch as, word size and dictionary size any info on this?

[Madars]

See 7zip help file for explainations for these settings. Modifying them may reduce or increase your compression ration. Some time ago after studying 7zip manual and experimenting I found these parameters to be most useful for me:

x=9 m=Deflate fb=255 pass=4