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.
(In reply to
re(2): Any compressor will do -- doubt it by Art M)
>>Suppose the unzipper program was given a file under 1 Mb... what would it do?
>I am assuming that all original files are larger than 1Mb.
Yes, the ORIGINAL file is larger than 1Mb, but the unzipper gets the COMPRESSED file, which may be smaller than 1Mb.
re(3): Any compressor will do -- doubt it
