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Old 01-21-2006   #9 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by streaker69
I believe that they're binary files so they're already compressed aboot as far as they can be.
If they were executable (.exe) files I'd agree, because most modern compilers compress.

But if the data is raw uncompressed data, binary/ascii it should compress. I wouldn't be surprised to see 6 to 1 or better results.
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