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Re:Precomp: Further compress files that are already compressed by AlotOfReading on Saturday October 31, 2020 @05:28PM (#24955332)
The terminology in the readme is strangely inverted. 'Compress' seems to mean decompress and vice versa. This extends to the source code itself. Perhaps a language barrier?
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Re:Precomp: Further compress files that are already compressed by est31 on Saturday October 31, 2020 @06:57PM (#24955897)
> Perhaps a language barrier?

The two words in German are Komprimieren (compress) vs Dekomprimieren (decompress). Not much potential to mix up here.

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