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.
If the size of the compressed file is less than 1MB then compress it, otherwise leave it. The decompressor will know what to do by looking at the file size.
The idea is to use the additional 'bit' of information that the file sizes are bigger that 1MB. Of course vswitchs's solution is more creative than mine but it's the same idea.
Edited on October 21, 2006, 3:03 am
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Posted by Art M
on 2006-10-21 03:00:50 |
Any compressor will do
