the %age is the amount of space saved due to compression. it is expressed as the %age
of the file's
size. tho some compression proggies mean the compression to be <compressed
size>/<orig. size> * 100
tho... I thin PKZIP used to do that, or was it RAR... dont remember.
Nikhil.
On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 02:47:30PM -0700, Sudhakar Chandra wrote:
>
> This got me thinking... What does 100% compression mean? Does it mean
> that the compressed file is 1/100th the size of the original file?
>
> Thaths
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