A file compressor is great for shrinking stored files, but it depresses me whenever I see a file grow instead of shrink. So what I am looking for is a file compression algorithm that never inflates any files, although it is allowed that some files (not all of course!) have the same length after "compression". Ideally it should work on files of all sizes, but I would be satisfied with a compressor that operates only on files larger than 1MB. Can you provide such an algorithm? No programming knowledge is required for this problem.

Oh!!  Have I, and others been fed barrels of "red herrings"?

I'm looking at OOO and the impossibility  scenarios. 

JLo!  Are you [as within the puzzle] being the 'femme fatale'? 

Posted by brianjn on 2006-10-20 11:30:45