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Old March 26th 09, 09:03 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.boatanchors
Geoffrey S. Mendelson Geoffrey S. Mendelson is offline
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Antonio Vernucci wrote:

By the way, the rar compression is almost inexistent, because the sum of part1,
part2 and part3 is very close to 214 Mbyte. Probably rar was only used to split
the big file into three smaller files.


Yes, that's because the images are already compressed. They use a very high
compression algotrythm, uncompressed the book would be around 3500 megabytes,
instead it's less than 1/10th of that. RAR compression on top of that does
not give you very much savings.

Now, if only there was a way to index it by computer.

Geoff.



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