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Compression depression

Howard Kaikow

2005-07-26, 5:48 pm

Some backup software is overly zealous in not compressing many files,
This results in poor compression ratios.

So I wrote a program. to learn the distribution of file name extensions on
each volume.

See http://www.standards.com/index.html...ypeDistribution