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Re: Quark or LZW
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Stan Sieler <[log in to unmask]>
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Stan Sieler <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 28 Feb 2003 10:29:16 -0800
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> I am trying to compress some Orbit backup disk files and I am able to do it
> for the first one with Fixed Bytes, but can't do the rest.

Probably a dumb question...but do you have any reason to
believe that they *are* compressable?  I.e., if they have
compressed data already, they might not be functionally compressable.

If they are compressable, then that implies that either (a) you
didn't tell ORBiT's backup to compress as it stored, or (b) ORBiT's
compression algorithm isn't as good as whatever you used to
subsequently compress the file.
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