And Greg Lindahl writes:
> I often find that floating-point data doesn't compress much, but that
> ASCII representations of the same data compresses to a file smaller
> than the binary one.
However, some care is necessary if you're using decimal output rather
than hex. I've run into problems with
Carsten Aulbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> We have a Gbit network, i.e. for us this test is a null test, since it
> takes 7-zip close to 5 minutes to compress the data set of 311 MB which
> we could blow over the network in less than 5 seconds, i.e. in this case
> tar would be our favorite ;)
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