Re: Disregarding "EOF" Marker in Binary File
- Posted by Pete Lomax <petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk> Nov 16, 2004
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On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 09:07:42 -0800, cklester <guest at RapidEuphoria.com> wrote: <snip> Glad to hear it works. >Is it normal for the encoded file to be larger than the actual file? Yes, around 30% I think. It's just the penalty to reliably transmit binary over a 7-bit network. yEnc has a lower (but still non-zero) overhead, but I don't think anyone has coded that in Euphoria yet. Regards Pete