A strong high quality data compressor?

[oOFurySnowOo]

Is there a program that can compress a file of for example, 100mb, to 1mb?
I have seen it at some websites, but i forgotten...
[I have done my google search on this, but i found no information of it. Sigh]

[AlexanderVB]

I hate to break it to you, but, fragmenting a file from 100mb to 1mb is impossible, but I do recommend WinRar

WinRAR archiver, a powerful tool to process RAR and ZIP files

Thats the best I can do.



If I am wrong on the 100 to 1, please show me this program, because I want to read its code :P

[FabianN]

Well, let me first explain what compression does.

Electronics communicate using 1s and 0s
So you can have a file that looks something like this:

101010111111100001010101000000000001010100101

A compression program will that that and turn it into

101010(1x7)(0x4)1010101(0x11)1010100101

Thats basicly what it does, so how much you can compress a file depends on the file itself.
Now, a good compression program that I use is winrar. Thats what I suggest. It has great results, and if you need you can have the archive split into sections.

[AlexanderVB]

Hence why I said winrar, great at splitting. However Fabian, it does a little more then that.


A compression allows the other binary to work around it. But, I'm to drunk to explain it.

[FabianN]

Eh, technical details I don't think the original poster would be too interested in.

[AlexanderVB]

Yeah, I am going to learn a lot from you Fabian I swear. You taught me about the GDP and now reminded me about this, I gotta hang around you more :P