Web servers and browsers have built in zip type file compression on the
fly.  When you go to a site, your browser tells the web server its
capability in this regard, and the webserver will compress if it can
(which depends on who set it up).

Companies with smart webadmins who want to reduce bandwidth usage are
very aggressive in this respect, and one of the reasons you need a fast
computer to serve a relatively slow (1Mbps) line.  A 486 webserver can
saturate a regular 10Mbps line, but it takes a fast machine with gobs of
memory to compress several files at once for different viewers and still
saturate that line with the compressed data.  This also increases the
user-friendlyness of a web site, since html files are compressed ( which
typically compress a *lot*) and load faster, and the end users don't
have to worry about dealing with .zip files.  Download the exe, pdf, etc
and use it directly.

-Adam

Jinx wrote:

>>See if the files compress more than expected with winzip/etc
>>as well?
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>>BillW
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>No, it doesn't. Possibly there's some compression at their end
>and exapnsion at my end and NetMedic is displaying the post-
>modem (ie PC-side expanded) volume, even though the actual
>volume into the modem is compressed. Might pop off a mail to
>NetMedic and get their opinion, still makes me wonder every
>time I see it
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