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Old 04-24-2018, 07:54 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by sherman View Post
What struck me as odd is using a zip file as a container, and explicitly denying the use of compression. Why? Text is highly compressible after all.
IIRC, the WebBook spec doesn't explicitly deny compression. It discourages compression and states that if you do compress you can only use the deflate algorithm. In other words, you can compress but you can't use the bzip2, LZMA, or XZ algorithms.
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