No, no the 3.5gb is compressed into 2mb really. Next time i'l attach the rar file, I decompressed it and all the contents are retrieved again......... True.........
The only thing that can compress that much is when there is a lot of redundant data. Most of the Windows Disc contains already compressed data, in cab format. compressing it further will not yield very much further compression, and in fact might even make the file larger.
regarding the listing you made ryder17z, while many cab files are not compressed- almost all are. It was intended as a replacement for the previous method, where MS was compressing files using a small LZW compressor, (compress is available from the windows 3.1 sdk) as well as expand which expanded the files. they often had an underscore or dollar sign as the filename.
additionally, batch and script files should be listed as text files, not executables. executables contain strictly machine code or interpreted byte code, rather then plain text, as would be the case for batch or script files.
