File Adapter--Processing parameter configuration

Hi Experts,
I need to configured the sender and reciever FTP Adapter to Archive a 37 MB text file within a FTP server.
It is taking 20 min to archive the file.
does this requirement requires any change in Parameter configuration(like transfer mode, channel availabilty planning( i am using daily with duration 30 min) to make it fast.
Thank you,
MK

Hi Experts,
To archive huge files using FTP adapter, i looked at the Michal weblog to zip the file :
/people/michal.krawczyk2/blog/2007/02/08/xipi-command-line-sample-functions
please explain how and where to write the below file
@ECHO OFF
7za.exe a -tzip D:\file_cat\%2.zip %1
del %1
and also explain
Zipping a file can also be done with jar.
For example,
jar cvf m.zip m.txt
will zip m.txt into m.zip
No need for any other software as jar is highly likely to be on the XI/PI server...
and how to implement it in the FTP adapter configuration.
Thanks in Advance.

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