C506634@umcvmb.missouri.edu (Eric Edwards) (06/05/89)
Has anyone else but me noticed the rather odd file size of Microemacs at uihub?
In what is supposed to be a zooed form of Fred Fish 195 microemacs is over 900k
! What gives? Floppies only hold 838k. Hmmm maybe it was zooed with the
"expand" option.... Yeah, THAT'S the ticket....
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>> In what is supposed to be a zooed form of Fred Fish 195 microemacs is over > 900k >> ! What gives? Floppies only hold 838k. Hmmm maybe it was zooed with the >The disk 195 itself contained some zoo files... zoo can not compress something >twice... so the zoo files are stored verbatum, then the headers that zoo adds >for each file is added, so it could indeed be bigger then the input when the I thought about that but 100k in headers seemed rather unlikely expecially sinc e there probobly aren't very many files. I guess the checksums could account f or a lot of it. > >Brian Waters <backbone>!{iuvax|pur-ee}!bsu-cs!jbwaters > Bitnet: C506634@umcvmb.bitnet __________________________ Internet: C506634@umcvmb.missouri.edu / \.--------. / \ "The Amiga just isn't reliable enough unless you | | Eric |---------+ | know a lot about the machine" -- Jerry Pournelle | `--------' ! | ================================================|| .--------. ! | "I did notice that at my party people stood in | | Edwards|_________+ | line to play with the Amiga"-- Jerry Pournelle | /`--------' | BYTE, October '88 \__________________________/