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- From: fermat@fermat.dartmouth.edu (Michael Glenn)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: What is the point of .playscore format?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec25.235230.27663@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: 25 Dec 92 23:52:30 GMT
- Sender: news@dartvax.dartmouth.edu (The News Manager)
- Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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- What is the purpose of the .playscore format? I had figured this would be
- because of the "size", but look:
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- -rw-rw-r-- 1 fermat 43777 Dec 25 18:44 Invention-12.playscore
- -rw-rw-r-- 1 fermat 4669 Dec 25 18:43 Invention-12.playscore.Z
- -rw-rw-r-- 1 fermat 61222 Dec 25 18:43 Invention-12.score
- -rw-rw-r-- 1 fermat 7243 Dec 25 18:42 Invention-12.score.Z
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- Sure, it is smaller than the .score file, but look at how nice a job
- "compress" does with it? (lha and zip do an even better job) The
- compressed .score file is much much smaller than the .playscore file. The
- time it takes playscore to read in either the .score or .playscore files
- seems very nearly the same. So I can't believe it is to speed things up.
-
- Anyone know? Why not just compress them, and pipe through zcat when you
- want to read it?
-
- Michael
- fermat@fermat.dartmouth.edu (NeXTMail ok)
-