On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 9:27 PM, Narendra Diwate
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Just received a .rar file (rar archive) that turned out to be bigger than
> the pdf file contained in it. Any one has any ideas why or how it could be.
> Only one file was in it.

Rar will add it's own overhead information. So, if the amount of data
compressed < rar overhead then the filesize will become bigger than
the original file.
That's one possibility.


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Mehul Ved

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