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What's the best way to compress a file?
Name: Mike Date: February 2, 2002 at 17:09:12 Pacific
Comment:
I've always tried to compress files but the percentage of compressing is about at 96% from the original one. How come files I found on the net can be compressed as much as 50% from the original? I'm trying to send per exemple a mp3 to my friends by e-mail is it really impossible?!?
Name: Jimi_l Date: February 2, 2002 at 17:13:32 Pacific
Reply:
Music files are practiclly un-compressable.You wont find a utility that will shrink them much.I assume the issue your having is that it is too large for the persons mail box.The easiest thing to do is use a program like Winrar or Winzip self extracting utility.This will break it up into a few pieces that can be put back together on the other end. Go to>>>> www.downloads.com and search for "file splitting".There are a few freebies that also do this well. Jimi_l
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Response Number 2
Name: Heather Date: February 2, 2002 at 20:33:49 Pacific
Reply:
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