Precomp and SREP

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Originally Posted by DazzleR

i have heard a lot that precomp and srep help in compressing files to a great deal...
but till now i have not been able to do it ...
i had seen a release..that had the final files packed in .arc...when i start extracting..a .pcf file is extracted that is of a very huge size...then a rar file finally comes out which as a size smaller than the .pcf file...??
does anyone know how do such stuff ??

I tried to compress the final extracted files directly with free arc..but i don't get such a compression ratio..

Please Help ME !!

Compress the game files with freearc with -m0 command (no compression).
the resultant file is (eg. data.arc) is processed through precomp.
then work srep on that file ( data.pcf).
then finally compress that srep file (data.pcf.srep) with freearc again with maximum compression.

data.arc>data.pcf>data.pcf.srep>data.cab


you can try this but every game has different compression method for minimum size.
Good luck