[SATLUG] [OT] Apple dmg's compressible?

[Bob Tracy]

Off-topic question for the OS X people...  Are ".dmg" (disk image) files
compressible?  Yeah, I suspect the answer is "it depends", but the
reason for asking on *this* occasion is the size of the Xcode 2.4.1
image (923.2 MB).  If it's sufficiently compressible to make it fit on
a CD, I'd be a happy man.  Otherwise, I've gotta find me a DVD burner
in a land of comparative scarcity when it comes to that item.

Sheesh...  I originally asked this question because I figured it would
be faster to download this critter at the day job and sneaker-net it
home, but I'm getting a whoppin' 15.x KB/sec transfer rate off the
Apple site over a cable-modem connection.  If the situation doesn't
improve, it would be just as fast to do the download at home over my
IDSL connection :-(.  As things stand right now, I'm looking at another
12-14 hours before the download completes.

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