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From: dvldbg@cs.umu.se (Daniel Brahneborg)
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Subject: Re: Trying to get maximum compression
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Date: 25 Mar 91 00:27:30 GMT
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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?

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