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Re: Compressability if ISO images (was Re: ISO image)



On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 18:59, Thorsten Haude wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> * Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> [2003-01-15 01:32]:
> >Why don't these images compress well?  Specifically, I took the
> >Knoppix V3.1-2002-12-12-EN iso and gzipped it, but only got 1%
> >compression.
> 
> I guess the Knoppix guys already try very hard to compress what's on
> the CD. I hear they have 1.7GB software on this disk.

Ah, good point.  Should have thought of that...

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