vg55611@ihuxy.ATT.COM (Gopal) (02/16/89)
In article <8029@netnews.upenn.edu> silver@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP (Andy Silverman) writes: >file's true size and the amount of space it takes up on the drive (determined >by cluster size). One way to compress text files so that they take up less >drive space is to use a program like ARC or PKPAK to combine several text >files into one large library file, which is then further squashed using >mathematical techniques to reduce disk usage even more. >Andy Silverman A small amount of compression may be obtained without sacrificing readability by substituting spaces with tabs. I do this routinely with most text files I have on my hard disk. Venu P. Gopal UUCP: att!ihuxy!vg55611 Internet: vg55611@ihuxy.att.com BITNET: com%"vg55611@ihuxy.att.com" or com%"vg55611%ihuxy@research.att.com" Save 500 million keystrokes a day; silence those silent letters forever.