Re: Creating a zip file

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B.W. wrote:

If I want to send an exe file to someone and it's too big. When I
follow the instructions on creating a zipped file, I seem to end up
with both the zipped and unzipped files the same size. What am I
missing here?


Zipping compresses some files a little, some files a lot, and some files not
at all. What kind of file is it? For example, a jpg file is already
compressed and zipping normally does nothing to make it smaller.

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