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to: Dieter Mirbach
from: Alan Whitemore
date: 1993-08-18 08:26:00
subject: lost messages

Hello Dieter!



17 Aug 93 23:55, Dieter Mirbach wrote to Alan Whitemore:



 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.



 DM> Have you considered "stacking" or "dblspacing"
it ?? You may

 DM> reach a suitable compromise, speed wise.



I should try dblspace one day. I'm really happy with the way everything is
running at the moment using pkzip though.





Alan...



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