On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 12:03:50PM +0300, Tapio Lehtonen wrote:
> A 'thing' like this has been discussed, but it may not work in
> practice. If the files are compressed, even changing one bit in the
> original file may change a very large part of the compressed file,
> this is because of the way the compression works.
Hi Tapio,
Ok that could be valid I guess. Maybe this weekend I'll test out the theory
and see how I do, mainly because I'm curious.. I dont doubt what your saying
at all. I'd just like to see how it goes :)
I dont know much about compression and how it all works, so I was thinking
that if the majority of the archive was the same, and say they only patched
up one or two files, then the compressed data would be the same or very
similar for the files that didn't change. That was the theory I was thinking
on.. Am I wrong?
Regards,
Robert Davidson.
