Kinda, I honestly can’t remember how it’s done I read an article on the subject donks ago, IIRC, it takes out “blank” bits of info and replaces them with said blanks at the de-compression stage it’s all very clever stuff I don’t need to know about really but I think that’s why you can get a text file that can be 70 odd % compressed and yet most images struggle to get beyond 10%.

Or I could be misguided ;-)

-----Original Message-----
From: Ben McCormack [mailto:ben.mccormack@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 28 May 2002 12:55
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Lossless Compression Help!

but unzipping a zip file will replace that junk

-----Original Message-----
From: Kenneth Watt [mailto:kennwatt@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 28 May 2002 12:52
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Lossless Compression Help!

Just remember the next time you zip a file, your doing the impossible!

Not at all, a .ZIP file in most instances removes the junk from the file which is not really needed, look at the compression ratios for various files and you will see what I mean, some are more efficient than others at being zipped. Like a text file can be compressed far better than a JPEG or a BMP file.

K.

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