Re: [gentoo-user] OT Best way to compress files with digits

2014-10-31 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 2:55 PM, David Haller wrote: > > On Fri, 31 Oct 2014, Rich Freeman wrote: > >>I can't imagine that any tool will do much better than something like >>lzo, gzip, xz, etc. You'll definitely benefit from compression though >>- your text files full of digits are encoding 3.3 b

Re: [gentoo-user] OT Best way to compress files with digits

2014-10-31 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Fri, 31 Oct 2014, Rich Freeman wrote: >On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 11:59 AM, wrote: >> I am currently checking the compression tools I know of for the >> best compression ration. But I will definitly miss those I dont >> know... >> And sometimes one can do magic with option and switches of

Re: [gentoo-user] OT Best way to compress files with digits

2014-10-31 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 11:59 AM, wrote: > I am currently checking the compression tools I know of for the > best compression ration. But I will definitly miss those I dont > know... > And sometimes one can do magic with option and switches of that > kind of tools I also dont know of. I can't im

Re: [gentoo-user] OT Best way to compress files with digits

2014-10-31 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 10/31/2014 04:59:17 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: If someone has suggestionsalways appreciated! :) It's best to ask on the news group comp.compression. There are top international specialists. Helmut

Re: [gentoo-user] OT Best way to compress files with digits

2014-10-31 Thread meino . cramer
Ralf [14-10-31 16:48]: > Well, you could just save the generating algorithm. *scnr* > > I think compressing pi is hardly possible, as the numbers are > distributed pretty randomly. > But why do you want to compress? You can't work on compressed data. > And there are enough sites on the internet,

Re: [gentoo-user] OT Best way to compress files with digits

2014-10-31 Thread Ralf
Well, you could just save the generating algorithm. *scnr* I think compressing pi is hardly possible, as the numbers are distributed pretty randomly. But why do you want to compress? You can't work on compressed data. And there are enough sites on the internet, where you can get your digits again.

[gentoo-user] OT Best way to compress files with digits

2014-10-31 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, I have a lot of files with digits of PI. The digits are the characters of 0-9. Currently they are ZIPped, which I think is not the best way to do that. I read of 7zips PPMd which compresses "natural text" quite well...but my files are not "natural text" (as they are also no "binary dat