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From: chuq@plaid.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Hypercard files are HUGE!
Message-ID: <34837@sun.uucp>
Date: Wed, 25-Nov-87 01:07:37 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 25 01:07:37 1987
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Reply-To: chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
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>I recently converted a Knowledgeman database file of about 80K
>into Hypercard by importing it.  The resulting file (without
>any links at all) was 1.2 Meg!

Did you try compacting the stack? When importing things, Hypercard tends to
allocate space that can later be freed up, but you have to do that
manually.
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Chuq "Fixed in 4.0" Von Rospach			chuq@sun.COM	Delphi: CHUQ