On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 12:48:59PM +1300, Wesley Parish wrote:
> I've just checked, and there is a file mvs38j.tar.gz, and it clocks in at
> 407.2 MB, but the mvs38j directory clocks in at 419.2 MB.
>
> So much for gzip's compression ratio - I am deeply disappointed.
the compression ration depends on the data being compressed.
binaries don't compress as well as text.
images and movies are already compressed in their native format,
so any attempt to compress them again must fail.
greetings, martin.
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