On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Louis Simard louis.sim...@gmail.com wrote:
Hey :)
Thanks for the interest in this optimisation! Unfortunately I wasn't
pushy enough in my thread from May-June and it wasn't included in the
Maverick LiveCD. A pending question is what to do to include the
On Fri, 2010-10-08 at 00:07 +0800, John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
Strangely, even running advzip -z -0
images_human.zip shrinks it by 3%, and even shrinks the corresponding
images_human.zip.gz file
That's not strange, that's just entropic packing principles. You've got
a bunch of assumptions that
On 07.10.2010 18:07, John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
That's an interesting optimisation; I didn't really know about it
either. However, I did use 7zip's Deflate compressor to recompress a
.zip file of OpenOffice.org's from 5.9 MB to 5.4 MB. The method was
rather crude, but it did the job:
mkdir
2010-10-07 16:29 GMT Martin Owens docto...@gmail.com:
On Fri, 2010-10-08 at 00:07 +0800, John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
Strangely, even running advzip -z -0
images_human.zip shrinks it by 3%, and even shrinks the corresponding
images_human.zip.gz file
That's not strange, that's just entropic
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2010-10-07 16:07 GMT John McCabe-Dansted gma...@gmail.com:
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Louis Simard
On 10/08/2010 12:22 AM, Louis Simard wrote:
There are a over a dozen different types of file to be tested (and
there may be more than one application that wants to read them). For
reference, I have attached them. Probably the most important thing to
check is that printing still works, as many
