On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 18:24:53 -0400, dan mclaughlin wrote: > is it? one of the reasons i brought it up is that in gzip(1) it seems pretty > clear that it is supposed to be the file size
The original file size (and thus compression ratio) is not stored in the gzip archive, it is computed by gzip(1) on the fly by decompressing the file and keeping track of how many bytes were read vs. how many would have been written. - todd
