Compressing sequences

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Hi. I've been receiving this ML for awhile, but haven't really been
reading it, so please forgive me if someone has already mentioned an
idea like this ...

For the project I'm working on, I have the need to save lots of big
sequences to disk. I won't go into why because that would take too long.
Needless to say, I'm going to need some way to compress them. I've tried
EDOM, and it works fairly well ... but, I have another idea ...

My original file (saved using prints) was about 60,000 bytes. The one
saved using EDOM was about 24,000 bytes. However ... if I used PKZip to
zip my original, print'ed set of sequences, it became ... 622 bytes!
Yikes! Would there be a way to save and load zipped sequences 'on the
fly', ie, save_zipped_seq () / load_zipped_seq? Or is this just a dumb
idea?

No flames. I'm still a newbie to most of this stuff. ;)

DARREN HEWER, darren_hewer at hotmail.com
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