Hello Dieter!



02 Apr 93 02:06, Dieter Mirbach wrote to Alan Whitemore:



 AW>> I take the stuff to work. copying 1 - 1.4 meg of data is slow enough

 AW>> without compressing it first, although that is an option.



 DM> I do the same thing, i.e reading the mail at home & at work, and

 DM> I do not have a problem fitting 2 packets of 600 messages each on

 DM> a 1.44, and including all my REP packets to date. Granted, I'm

 DM> not as prolific as some, and will have to do some housekeeping at

 DM> some stage in the next couple of months.



Yes I never had a problem fitting qwk packets onto floppy disk but now with

the point setup, the msgbase and associated files are normally in an

uncompressed state.



 DM> A cache also helps somewhat as well, as all the major

 DM> decompression work is done in the cache, and the reader is kept

 DM> on both hard drives.



 DM> Is this a similar setup to what you have ??



I've got an identical setup on both work and home machines. Basically

the setup is Frontdoor, Golded and Fmail, with OLX still used for QWK

packets. I'd love to have one of those removable hard drives that plugs

into the parallel port though.



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







Alan...



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