My guess would be that if 0 means 'default', then it doesn't have to mean no compression -- separating 'default' (0) from 'no compression' (1) allows the ZIM standard to change the default one day.
A.
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Tommi Mäkitalo <tommi@tntnet.org> wrote:
The first byte in a cluster specifies the compression. The value is:
0 default (no compression)
1 none (also no compression, I don't know, why vlado specified this in zeno,
but I take ist over to zim)