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- From: rnichols@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (robert.k.nichols)
- Subject: Re: Compression (Was: Normal MSDOS multitasking!)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.170406.12199@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
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- Organization: AT&T
- References: <1h7lrmINNpde@aludra.usc.edu> <1992Dec24.012913.10203@exucom.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 17:04:06 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec24.012913.10203@exucom.com> cyberman@exucom.com (Stephen R. Phillips) writes:
- ... lots of stuff from the old thread deleted ...
- ... Also perviewsly
- >archived files (shar) have a MUC higher compression ratio than
- >standard. IE GTETRIS.ZIP is 18k shared and ziped BUT 32k when
- >archived BY zip. Hmmmm intresting?
- ...
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- No surprise here. A single, large file will have less overhead from
- headers and, if reasonably homogeneous, gives an adaptive compression
- algorithm a chance to work its way up to a better level of efficiency.
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- Bob Nichols
- AT&T Bell Laboratories
- rnichols@ihlpm.ih.att.com
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