From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 563121389FE for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 15:37:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0DB4DE08C8; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 15:37:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mout.gmx.net (mout.gmx.net [212.227.15.15]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BD79CE081D for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 15:37:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost ([84.133.128.193]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx003) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MXIcX-1XXu4f47Mb-00WFMM for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 16:37:01 +0100 Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 16:36:59 +0100 From: meino.cramer@gmx.de To: Gentoo Subject: [gentoo-user] OT Best way to compress files with digits Message-ID: <20141031153659.GA13217@solfire> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (Linux) X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:i4OdqGrppUeEOta8UBMIZB2ikga1y+qO1Lwl/YUmBO5HvzyWR4v z39GqJ+lPGHNazZbI0qGVtX8Fle8Ey5WBnBRORWRAMpapZPIM/LOk+j2yJGkdTqv6t56UHN w+G/6f+gJcskcCMvpG1jVqOH0T5XFsUpOscVPWgrybO1CRl8lUHpXs2+vQK6StGyaD50fJN KpasepZaqiT9XtAqVCDDw== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1; X-Archives-Salt: cfa9d1bc-db25-422e-bccd-faea18a52f7c X-Archives-Hash: b7905d433818129fc55dbb29a83925fc Hi, I have a lot of files with digits of PI. The digits are the characters of 0-9. Currently they are ZIPped, which I think is not the best way to do that. I read of 7zips PPMd which compresses "natural text" quite well...but my files are not "natural text" (as they are also no "binary data"). With what practical way of compression is it possible to compress the files (file by file) as much as possible? Thank you very much in advance for any help! Best regards, mcc