problems decompressing files

[Dar Scott]

On Wednesday, September 10, 2003, at 03:22 PM, Chris Sheffield wrote:

> I had one test file that was only 6
> bytes and it compressed/decompressed fine.  One thing I did notice, 
> however,
> is that when a file is this small, the compressed file actually ends up
> being larger.  I think in this case it was about 33 bytes.  Not sure 
> what
> that means.

The gzip format puts at minimum (typically) a 18-byte wrapper around 
the "deflate" data.  The "deflate" data is the compressed data, but has 
a minimum of maybe 5 bytes of overhead.

Dar Scott