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I tested several file compression programs like zip, gzip, arj, bzip2, jar etc for compressing big files. The corpus constituted 5 POI generated Microsoft Excel documents totaling 298.8 MB. And there is a clear winner!
About the data
The file excel documents were standard corporate data of a very big corporation (read Fortune 500). There is nothing [...]