Not sure what the original point was but curiously I happened to use file on a an Apple .numbers file recently and found that it was a .zip file in disguise with zero compression.
So maybe the point was that it’s used often as a container format more often than it’s used for compression? Just my (unrelated) general computer work would also suggest this.
AKA “Why zip doesn’t compress things much any more”.
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But then,
tar -xzvf filename
With a bad pretend accent:
Xtract
Zee
Vucking
File
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tar -cf stop-nuke.tar
?
Zipping a file repeatedly typically doesn’t reduce the size further after the first time.
Yeah duoy you [realistically] can’t compress compressed data…
Not sure what the original point was but curiously I happened to use
fileon a an Apple.numbersfile recently and found that it was a.zipfile in disguise with zero compression.So maybe the point was that it’s used often as a container format more often than it’s used for compression? Just my (unrelated) general computer work would also suggest this.
My 1.5gb log folders disagrees. But I never tried opening a .txt in 7-zip.