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From: frechett@spot.Colorado.EDU (-=Runaway Daemon=-)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Tetris2.1 update for HP48
Keywords: tetris, tetris2, update
Message-ID: <1991Mar17.092737.22414@colorado.edu>
Date: 17 Mar 91 09:27:37 GMT
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Everyone has no mentioned that puting tetris in ASC format makes it 
big like 14K but nobody has mentioned the real reason why that is a pain 
in the ass for people without extra memory.  
Here is a question for you.. 
If I have 20K available, could I download a 14K asc encoded file?  

Nope.  When it tries to download it apears to make a full copy of ascii files
so that you literally need twice the memory.  To download tetris you would need
28K available, which it is very doubtful that many people have.  Of course with
some extra memory the problem doesn't happen.. I haven't even touched my
second 128K card yet.. :)

	ian

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