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>I'm about to lost my freaking mind trying to zip some patches so that
>I can upload them on to the site. Any suggestions on easiest way to
>zip an AN file? I'm new to zipping files. Thanks.

After having some nightmarish experiences at work last week with compressed
files (yeah, you DO run the risk of losing data when you compress files -
that's what compression does!) I gotta wonder why we're compressing these
files anyway. They're not that big, so what's the deal? I also wonder about
using the ZIP protocol since that's a compression designed for Windows. Any
kind of raw sysex file would be cross-platform.... er, I guess it would
more accurately be "not platform-specific."

opinions?

- Scott
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Scott Gibbons
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>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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Scott Gibbons
nomusic@...

ADAM &-THE ANTZ <http://nomusic.hispeed.com/ants>
LILITH <http://nomusic.hispeed.com>
ORBITRONIK <http://nomusic.hispeed.com/orbitronik>
STRAWBERRY <http://nomusic.hispeed.com/strawberry>