Re: Re-2: compress - revZip

2009-10-11 Thread Claus Dreischer
Hi David, interesting idea! Unfortunately i can't control the other side (the uncompressing side) so i have to stick with normal compression. Thanks for the reply, Claus. Phil Davis schrieb: Hi Claus, It seems like you could compress a very large file by

Re-2: compress - revZip

2009-10-10 Thread runrev260805
Hi Claus, tried revzip out here with 4GB data on a 3gig Machine: No, it does not work. Btw:The same does work here with 7-zip. Regards, Matthias Original Message Subject: Re: compress - revZip (10-Okt-2009 14:03) From:Claus Dreischer cl...@dreischer.de To:

Re: Re-2: compress - revZip

2009-10-10 Thread Claus Dreischer
Hi Matthias, thanks for the confirmation. Regards, Claus. runrev260...@m-r-d.de schrieb: Hi Claus, tried revzip out here with 4GB data on a 3gig Machine: No, it does not work. Btw:The same does work here with 7-zip. Regards, Matthias

Re: Re-2: compress - revZip

2009-10-10 Thread Phil Davis
Hi Claus, It seems like you could compress a very large file by reading/compressing/writing one chunk (say 10 MB) at a time, until you have compressed the entire file. This approach would use the open file / read from file / write to file / close file approach instead of get url / put x