On Tuesday 18 February 2003 01:52 am, you wrote: > 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.
Well, a good percentage of those "binaries" are actually DASD images - ie, disk images. They may contain some binary|ies, but as far as I can see, they would be sparse files. So they should compress a lot better than that. Wesley Parish > images and movies are already compressed in their native format, > so any attempt to compress them again must fail. > > greetings, martin. -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
