So I too have been told by our site administrator, and discovered when i tired it too. I am not getting much smaller by compressing, and as I cannot insure the decompression options is there and sound, I do not wish to try this. On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Sean M McMahon wrote: > Someone will undoubtedly correct me about this, zip does not compress > music files more then they are already compressed. Zip is a loss-less > compression format. All your data could be there. Yes in answer to your > question, there are methods which have been suggested which will meet your > goals and not compress your data. > > > > > Karen Lewellen <klewellen at shellworld.net> > Sent by: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca > 09/27/2004 04:21 PM > Please respond to "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." > > > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > cc: > Subject: Re: Linux and data storage? > > > Much of this is music materials and the like which do not compress well > when using those programs as I have tried. > I do not want to chance it. > Call me a chicken if you wish but it is my data. Will the methods > suggested do this, no compression involved? > Karen > > On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Luke Davis wrote: > >> On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Karen Lewellen wrote: >> >>> I have no intention of risking a zip of any of these files, nor do i > want >>> to >> >> Risking a zip? What does that mean? Where is the risk? Gnu Zip (not > PK >> Zip), and Bzip2, are highly stable formats. >> Tar is an archiving method used for decades on unix. In fact, Linux > uses >> bzip2 as its kernel format these days. >> >> This exact method is how many of us who backup shellworld user data, do > it, >> on a regular basis--tar archived into bzip, or gzip. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
