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Old 05-06-2008, 04:51 PM   #11
The Fifth Horseman
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Is it true or just a legend that you may loose your data on the process to compress and decompress?
It's absolute bullshit. All proper archivers use lossless compression. Which means that after extraction the data are going to be identical with the ones originally packed down to a single byte.
Lossy compression is a different animal altogether.
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