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>On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 02:35:46PM -0500, tedd wrote: >> This file compressed down to 4.7 Megs in a zip file, which I believe >> uses a Huffman compression technique. > >Note that "zip" (also known as pkzip) and "gzip" (GNU zip) use >different compression methods. It's gzip that's generally used with >XML -- zip stores the filename and other metadata at the end of the >file, which doesn't stream very well. > >Try, for example, gzip -9 on your file. > >Liam Liam: I thank you for the clarification -- I was aware of the different names for zip. The point I was making was that the compression technique is based upon Huffman encoding, which it is -- please review: http://www.gzip.org/algorithm.txt I had thought so, considering that I translated it to another language several years ago to add functionality to an application I was working on at the time. As for trying "gzip -9" on my file, I work in the Mac environment and commonly use Stuff-It for all my compressions -- so that option is unfamiliar to me. tedd -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://sperling.com/
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