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From: mmunz@pro-beagle.cts.com (Mark Munz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Exchanging between different computers
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Date: 15 Sep 90 16:57:33 GMT
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In-Reply-To: message from mattd@Apple.COM

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>Unless no one has written an XTND translator yet and an AFE translator
exists,
>in which case you can get useful work done by using AFE or you can complain
>a whole lot and garner little sympathy.

That's great if the AFE translators really performed. Unfortunately, all
of Apple's translators (except for maybe the "raw-data") take forever.

>>Here's a question.. why is it that Microsoft's "Works-to-Works" (which,
>>btw.. still only does AW 2.x format) is about 10000 times faster than
>>Apple's Text converter??

>Dunno.  Probably because the built-in text converter has a bunch of options
>regarding changing CR to CR/LF, stripping 8-bit ASCII to 7-bit ASCII, etc.,
>and Works-to-Works doesn't have any such run-time options.

Come on.. those options aren't going to slow it down, UNLESS AFE reads 
ONE BYTE at a time and processes it. I hope it is not that stupid. Can
you say 'memory buffers'..

I've processed a 900K file (in which I need to compare char, words, 
repeating char, etc -- you know lots of char processing) on a Mac in 
less time than AFE handles a 50K textfile conversion.

I think that pretty much says it all.

Mark Munz