Tim: >> Generally speaking, trying to compress something that's already >> compressed doesn't gain you anything. Often, things will get bigger >> (e.g. new archive headers will be added to the file), and you're just >> creating more decompressing work to be done. Mike McCarty: > Yes, that's correct. However, when a file has very little > actual redundancy, sometimes recompression can have a dramatic > effect. It shouldn't if the compression routine was well written, in the first place. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
