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Subject: Re: datacomp problems for tbs

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 10:58:05 01/05/01

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On January 05, 2001 at 10:40:00, Mark Longridge wrote:

>Having some trouble with tb compression.
>
>crafty is always giving me:
>
>"Incorrect block size 65536"
>
>..after I try to use datacomp to compress the tb file. If I don't
>try to compress it, it works fine. Also tried block size 1024,
>same thing.
>
>I'm using NT 4.0 with FAT16.
>
>Thanks,
>Mark


8192 is the magic number I think.  Eugene had me test every possible blocksize
to see which had the best balance of compression and efficiency during probing.
8192 was the number.



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