21 May
2003
21 May
'03
10:57 a.m.
Thanks for that.
I tried simply zipping up a .WAV file created by the program I mentioned and
it compressed from 544kb down to 3.4kb. The original data file was 409
bytes, so although the result is 8 times bigger than the data file, storage
is not too much of a problem.
Do just check that you can expand this back to a WAV file (shouldn't be a
proble, zip is not a lossy compression method) and that you can replay
the WAV file into the computer concerned. No point in archiving data if
it can't be used...
At this compression ratio (or rather expansion I suppose), a CD could store
80Mb of original computer data - more than was probably ever written for
some of those computers!.
Indeed...
-tony