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What do compression output messages mean?

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janja#

What do compression output messages mean?

I have been trying to find an explanation of the output from makensis.exe when compressing files.

It is usually of the form:
File: "somefilename" [compress] somenumber/othernumber

othernumber is the files uncompressed size. I thought somenumber was the size after compression. However I get a bunch of files where somenumber = 0.

It doesn't seem to be an error and all the files install correctly. I was just wondering what that meant.

Thanks
liquidator87#
You get 0 when you add the same file two or more times... It would be unnecessary to store the same file more than one time into the exe...