Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!samsung!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!uw-beaver!sumax!halcyon!ralphs From: ralphs@halcyon.wa.com (Ralph Sims) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: gnudiff2.zoo compression Keywords: ZOO anti-compression Message-ID: Date: 25 Aug 90 15:28:18 GMT References: <36726@ut-emx.UUCP> Organization: The 23:00 News Lines: 15 churchh@ut-emx.UUCP (Henry Churchyard) writes: > In the recent post of GnuDiff, the ZOO archiver had packed the > 34,557 byte DIFF.EXE file into a 46,648 byte archive. When I asked > ZOO to recompress the DIFF.EXE file, I got exactly the same result! > This is data _compression_?! Perhaps it's time to switch to .ZIP. > It may be possible that one of the *.exe-shrinkers was applied prior to compression (lexe, exepack, etc.). On rare occasions archives can be larger than their components. -- No matter who you elect, the Government still gets in.