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Brian Dick <bdick_at_cox.net> wrote in message news:<kph48bk7nolx$.1dyli46ofitkf.dlg_at_40tude.net>...
> They only put the 1's on the disk and left off the 0's. Also, even though
> 0's were nothing, they were wider than the 1's and therefore took up more
> space.
Now, THAT is compression! Received on Tue Nov 16 2004 - 19:37:40 CST