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From: vg55611@ihuxy.ATT.COM (Gopal)
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Subject: Compressing Text Files (Was: confused: text files wastes space?)
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Date: 16 Feb 89 02:27:44 GMT
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In article <8029@netnews.upenn.edu> silver@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP (Andy Silverman) writes:
>file's true size and the amount of space it takes up on the drive (determined
>by cluster size).  One way to compress text files so that they take up less
>drive space is to use a program like ARC or PKPAK to combine several text
>files into one large library file, which is then further squashed using 
>mathematical techniques to reduce disk usage even more.
>Andy Silverman

A small amount of compression may be obtained without sacrificing
readability by substituting spaces with tabs.  I do this routinely
with most text files I have on my hard disk.

Venu P. Gopal
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