Computing with Data

Compression in Windows

compact /c foo.txt
##  Compressing files in C:\Users\Geish\Desktop\
## foo.txt                  5967 :      4096 = 1.5 to 1 [OK]
## 1 files within 1 directories were compressed.
## 5,967 total bytes of data are stored in 4,096 bytes.
## The compression ratio is 1.5 to 1.
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