On Wednesday, September 10, 2003, at 03:22 PM, Chris Sheffield wrote:
I had one test file that was only 6
bytes and it compressed/decompressed fine. One thing I did notice, however,
is that when a file is this small, the compressed file actually ends up
being larger. I think in this case it was about 33 bytes. Not sure what
that means.
The gzip format puts at minimum (typically) a 18-byte wrapper around the "deflate" data. The "deflate" data is the compressed data, but has a minimum of maybe 5 bytes of overhead.
Dar Scott
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