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Compression depends on many factors. You may apply lossy compression to audio/graphics and get a similar file with a lower file size; you may as well use a certain method which requires extraction before display (zip) /or direct ones (jpg). When using file compression -not data compression like jpg- you will then have to chose for a compression method (rar/zip/7zip to name a few). So, the limit will vary according to how much compressed the file will be (in case you have that setting available, depending on the system you use). To summarize, it all depends and the question does not provide much information.

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