Apologies to Scott (Was: Re: Zipping a file... why??)
2000-04-18 by jondl
Scott, I feel I owe you an apology. Ed's answer is absolutely the correct one to your question: > > Are compressed AN1/MIDI/sysex files really much smaller? Had anyone A-B'd > the difference? No biggie, just curious... > "Edwards, Ed" wrote: > > Zip should be applied to EVERYTHING that goes up there. > Example of A/B comparison: from > http://www.jdlx-musique.com/support/an1x/downloads.htm, the file Pavage8 has > a compression ration of 92%! Before - 221kb, after 17.7kb. I was lazy and just kind of glanced at your question. Thought you were asking for a comparison between the size of each file type, i.e., .an1 / .syx / .mid, uncompressed and uncompressed - not a simple compressed/uncompressed a/b comparison. I read too much into your question. Sorry. I'll pay more attention next time :-) Jon -- http://www.jdlx-musique.com/