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Subject: Re: Can I Recompress Nalimov Tablebases Twice?

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 17:48:27 06/15/00

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On June 15, 2000 at 18:21:49, Eran wrote:

>I have Fritz Endgame Turbo CD-ROM. I wish to install all of the Nalimov
>tablebases of about 2.1 GB onto my hard disk, but my 4 GB hard disk has about 1
>GB free space. I cannot free enough space because my files on my hard disk are
>important to me. Because of space limit, I wonder whether it is possible to
>recompress Nalimov tablebases twice using Compression Agent after my hard disk
>is compressed by DriveSpace 3. I don't know whether Nalimov tablebases can be
>recompressed further because they are compressed already with the file extension
>of *.emd. Can I recompress Nalimov tablebases twice? (Don't offer me to buy
>larger hard disk, because my old laptop accepts 4 GB hard disk space limit.)
>
>Thanks,
>Eran

A compression algorithm smooths out hills and valleys in the data.  If you do it
twice, nothing should happen, since everything is already smoothed out.  In
fact, your data will probably get a little larger.

bruce




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