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- Path: sparky!uunet!starnine!mikeh
- From: mikeh@starnine.com (Mike Haas)
- Subject: Re: Documenting - blocks source to target
- Message-ID: <C18D6M.Gyq@starnine.com>
- Sender: mikeh@starnine.com (Mike Haas)
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 00:54:21 GMT
- References: <1ja4ogINNl1v@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Organization: StarNine Technologies, Inc.
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- In article <1ja4ogINNl1v@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> bs764@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Fred H Olson) writes:
- >
- >
- >mikeh@starnine.com (Mike Haas) in his article Re: Documenting
- >dated Tue Jan 12 23:06:02 1993
- >
- >quotes me:
- >>> One feature
- >>>of such a system was that the host could filter the blocks before
- >>>sending them -- not sending 'trailing spaces' or anything after a
- >>>;S on a block for example.
- >
- >Then mike goes on:
- >>This is what kills me about blocks... the above fella used
- >>-TRAILING when sending screens over a communications media,
- >>adding extra code to both the SEND and RECEIVE routines
- >>(the RECEIVEr has to put them back in, no?).
- >>
- >>Why is he not concerned about the terrible waste of disk
- >>space that SCREENS cause?
- >
- >No, the reciever does not have to put them back, the original
- >article tried to clearly state that the target was *NOT* using
- >serial disk emulation.
- >
- >True, using blocks for source code takes a bit of extra space.
- >The reason for using -TRAILING etc is to speed comunication time
- >not save space. To save space on the disk, use something like
- >PKZIP. It will typically reduce text files by 50-60 percent,
- >source code in blocks maybe 70-80 percent.
-
- There's a major advantage of using text files instead of blocks...
-
- It not only saves a tremendous amount of disk space over blocks, but
- is still in a format that is interpretable...you don't have to
- PKUNZIP it first.
-
- But with some of the arguments I've witnessed here for BLOCKS, I wouldn't
- be surprized if someone proposed coding PKUNZIP in the interpreter to
- expand zipped SCEENS for interpretation.
- >
- >Fred (Internet: fred%jwh@vx.cis.umn.edu)
- >
- >--
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