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Old 08-09-2020, 10:10
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And one other thing. For to me unknown reasons many of you use wrong terms regarding data inflation, calling it compression and leading to confusions. When you compress data as a whole, you are in fact decompressing those streams in the process, that particular part is *not* compression but actually decompression. To avoid confusion with global data compression, call it inflation. You are inflating the data within global compression process - as a preprocess.

This is confusing because then you have inflator tool with parameters like "compress" and "decompress", guess which flag is used when, exactly opposite as when it should. It should be "e" or "c" during global data unpacking, and "d" during global compression, because that is what is actually happening. Tool is its own entity/command, working on its own and is not superwising rest of the chain in the process and doesnt know about it, it just push the data through the pipe.
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