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Subject: Re: Zipping a file... why??

From: Scott Gibbons <nomusic@...>
Date: 2000-04-16

>loss than SysEx files. In the past 18 months I've posted and downloaded
>.an1 voices I've yet to encounter a significant error with any .an1 file
>that has been Zipped or Stuffed. Oh, wait a minute - that's not

Cool, that's what I was hoping to hear from someone. I don't download many
patches, but having recently scored a DX7 (there are approximately 30,000
patches on the internet for this thing!!) I downloaded a bunch of those -
most of which were zipped - and had problems with a few. But only the
zipped ones. Being such an ancient instrument (1983 - was Windows even
around at that time?) some of these may have been zipped with an early data
compression tool somewhere down the line and that may have been what
introduced some glitches and errors.

Are compressed AN1/MIDI/sysex files really much smaller? Had anyone A-B'd
the difference? No biggie, just curious...

- Scott
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