Hello,
It's me again...

I need a really good compression algorithm,
since I know some people are not very bright *Dennis tries not to look at parksie * I also need this to be able to decompress.


I am looking for something similar to what winzip does,

although I would much appreciate the Zip file algorithm, thats not what I wan't.

me and a friend on ICQ exchange files and photo's rather often, and the size of the files, winzip, winace, etc. just isn't hitting it..

I am thinking of using a RAR file as a last resort, but I would really like to know how to make things like this..



I know, since this is my project I am working on, you aren't going to want to write it for me, and i don't wan't you to either,
but I need some examples or something, on how I would do something like this,

these are the file types i am planning on compressing,

GIF you know

BMP you know

JPG you know

TXT you know

EXE you know

ZIP well, if it's a real good algo. it may be able to be done

PNG a picture format

WSZ winamp skin

ICO you know

DAT a binary format file for storing information

HTM/L well this is just text, so need not be mentioned.

MP3 mpeg layer 3 (music)

DLL you know



Well, actually, I would like it to be able to compress all file types, but the picture files are the ones I am most worried about compressing effectivly.

I would also like to know how to make self extracting executable files.

like I said, I do not want the code for all of this stuff, I just want some sample code, and an explanation of how it can be or is being done.



Thank you very much,
I would prefer a reply before saturday afternoon, because I want to start working on this before I go back to school on monday.
Thank you very much,


Dennis.