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Nope, That's exatly the symptoms for DummyFiles. If you select the drive
with cd in, and check properties, it shows up like 650-700mb.
If you open the drive, select all, properties shows well over a Gig.
I just tried a ehm backed-up-cd*cough*pirated*cough* version of DeltaForce
black hawk down. Size of the drive is 673Mb, if i select all files, their
size is 4.05Gb! Now if I copy all files to my d drive, it takes 4.07Gb of
disk space. When I install the game, it takes about 900Mb.
"Highlandish" <ckreskay_CURSEING@dodo.com.au> wrote in message
news:2hdiucFbqk69U1@uni-berlin.de...
> Quoth The Raven "Rab" <compex@iinet.net.au> in
> MPG.1b1c1797bbbb12df989681@freenews.iinet.net.au
> > In article <2hd170Fbk6h9U1@uni-berlin.de>,
> > ckreskay_CURSEING@dodo.com.au says...
> >> Quoth The Raven "Slug" <no@email.here> in
> >> i4d2b0hls2v806e7uv0qjfpme559ss10s3@4ax.com
> >>> On Sun, 23 May 2004 11:57:52 GMT, "Asestar" <a s e s t a r @ s t a
> >>> r t . n o> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> You are saying there was actually 1,5GB worth of data on a 650mb
> >>>> cd? That's not possible. It's a cheap cd-protection known as
> >>>> DummyFiles.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Yes, it is. Go get Knoppix and install to your HDD. There is about
> >>> 2.8gb of data on that one cd.
> >>
> >> that's not exactly what I am saying, sure there are compressed
> >> archives on the knoppix disk that extract on installation, I am
> >> talking about drag and drop size when files are taken off the cd
> >> onto the hdd.
> >
> > Don't even need to drag/drop.
> > open the CD, select all files, select properties: file size shows as
> > over a gig
>
> yup, that's what I am talking about, can the ISO file be made with
> compression included? the individual file size when viewing the contents
of
> an iso will remain the original size, but is compressed as a whole. the
new
> compressed iso file will fit on a cd, and when officially extracted the
> correct way will be twice the size. I have to assume that this is what is
> happening, but I am curious enough to be corrected if there are any
> knowledgeable takers.
>
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