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Old 01-21-2006   #10 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Scruge
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.
Well, ya see, I seem to recall already asking Render or Thorn this question and I believed that they had already tried to compress them and found they wouldn't compress.

Of course you could always use the theory that a dude around here that we used to call Flounder had.

He would Zip, then RAR, then ARJ a file because that 'ensured' maximum compression, of course he never realized that the file got bigger each time he added another layer of compression.
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