compressing a file

[Skaperen]

So you want to read an uncompressed source file and compress it, but did not want the compression to be done in memory? Where did you want the compression to occur?

i did not want a solution that involved reading the whole file into memory and then compressing because it would take too much memory. i wanted to do incremental compression to use less memory. i've found a way to do it as the file is generated so i don't have to keep the uncompressed data.