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Help on compress command
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Can any1 help me with the compress command. The -b option takes the number of bits used for encoding. can u expalin why this number of bits is used and for what purpose. what is the maximum number we can provide? In SFU these number has a valod range between 12 and 16 y?? |
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The -b option controls the size of the dictionary that compress uses. The larger the number of bits used, the larger the dictionary compress can build and the greater the compression that can be attained and the longer it takes.
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