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Clive On 26/06/2012, at 2:00 PM, cm wrote: > Hi Clive, > > Compression works principally by finding patterns of repeated bits > and replacing them with an copy of the pattern and a count of how > many times the pattern is repeated. So a file with a lot of spaces > in it, or an mp4 video with large areas of the screen all the same > colour will compress down very nicely. However, if the file you are > trying to compress contains little repetition such as an executable > program file, then you will get very little compression. > > What was the file you were trying to compress? > > Regards, > Carlo > > On 26/06/2012, at 13:55 , Clive Slater wrote: > >> Hi >> >> OSX 10.4.11 g4, >> >> Trying to compress a 37mb file using archive does not compress the >> file , turns it into a .zip but the file size is the same size. What >> am I missing. >> >> Regards >> >> Clive >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/ >> wamug.org.au-wamug> > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/ > wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
