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From: paixao@ug.cs.dal.ca (Nuno M. Paixao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Stack Compaction and large distributions
Message-ID: <1991Apr23.030248.16004@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 23 Apr 91 03:02:48 GMT
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>>Garbage collection. Throws out all the waste space that collects in HC
>>stacks. I only wish that MicroSoft Word had the same function :-).
>
>It does.  If you disable "Fast Save" in MS Word 4.0, it rewrites files
>to disk without the "free space" incurred by Fast Save.  It's quite
>similar to compacting a stack, actually.  You can use MS Word's
>"Command" dialog to install "Fast Save" on one of your menus, and then
>simply uncheck it so that your docs will never save in the "inflated"
>form.
>
Yes, but it also slows down the process greatly if you are on a low end mac.
I work with 40 pages documents and I prefer to save them as FAST SAVE 
until they are completed.  When I choose to save them the long way, it can 
easily take 20-30 seconds. This is OK when you are finishing up, but when you 
are saving every 10-15 minutes, it is a pain. By the way, the fast save
only takes 3-4 seconds on the same document.

				Nuno


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