-=> Quoting Alan Whitemore to Dieter Mirbach <=-

 Hello Alan,

 AW> Yes I never had a problem fitting qwk packets onto floppy disk but now
 AW> with the point setup, the msgbase and associated files are normally in
 AW> an uncompressed state.
 
 I get the picture now.
 
 AW> packets. I'd love to have one of those removable hard drives that
 AW> plugs into the parallel port though.

Don't we all...

 AW> I'm finding now that compressing my msgbase onto floppy 
 AW> disk using Pkzip, it's adding about 20 seconds of overhead 
 AW> and as Paul suggested, if everything is automated you don't 
 AW> have to sit and watch all the processing so the extra time 
 AW> doesn't matter.

Have you considered "stacking" or "dblspacing" it ?? You may 
reach a suitable compromise, speed wise.


Dieter



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