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Re: A little compression...
On Fri, 23 May 2008 13:24:33 -0700, Sam Hobbs wrote:
> "Dombo" <dombo@disposable.invalid> wrote in message
> news:4837057b$0$24399$5fc3050@news.tiscali.nl...
>> Sam Hobbs schreef:
>>>
>>> I would search the internet for the various algorithms.
>>
>> You also need data sets, certain compression algorithms (or
>> implementations thereof) work better with certain data than others.
>
> I don't understand that. I especially don't understand why we need data sets
> to understand algorithms.
Not to understand them but to compare the compression ratios.
>> I suppose you mean tar file format instead of rar?
>
> No. Note that the previous message said "WnRAR".
But then you talked about it being well documented in Unix documentation
which it certainly isn't. But `tar` is a standard Unix format. Oh,
and RAR is an algorithm and an archive format.
Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch