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Article #14Re: Trying to get maximum compression
From: Daniel Brahneborg
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1991 00:27
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1991 00:27
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In article <a+5fs#b@rpi.edu> force@aix01.aix.rpi.edu (Christopher Jon Pe) writes: >shaw@pegasus.com (Sandy Shaw) writes: > >>I am trying to get the maximum compression possible of the following >>32 byte hex file(in ASC): > >>f3e9 ec5c 8bec ecdb ece9 ec12 ec3f ecec >>0cbb 8bec 5cdb ecdb 5c9c bbec 8bdb 9cec > > Well, if it is a HEX file, why don't you try to compress it by taking two >bytes and putting them into one byte (range 0-255)? > Get serious! He said it was a 32-byte HEX file, not a 80-byte ASCII file. Where were you during the lessons about bits and bytes? /Basic
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!cs.umu.se!dvldbg From: dvldbg@cs.umu.se (Daniel Brahneborg) Newsgroups: alt.comp.compression,comp.compression Subject: Re: Trying to get maximum compression Message-ID: <1991Mar25.002730.11027@cs.umu.se> Date: 25 Mar 91 00:27:30 GMT References: <1991Mar24.152106.6333@pegasus.com> <a+5fs#b@rpi.edu> Sender: news@cs.umu.se (News Administrator) Organization: Dep. of Info.Proc, Umea Univ., Sweden Lines: 17