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- Item 1209812 8-Jan-90 12:19
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- From: ALGER Alger, Jeff,VCA
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- To: PAPERFREE PaperFree, Joel Benisch,PRT
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- cc: MACAPP.TECH$ MacApp Technical
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- Sub: Re: Remote Use of Projector
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- Joel,
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- Projector will work fine with remote access, but the speed of transmission is a
- real problem for a project of any appreciable size. This is due to the fact
- that an entire file must always be sent in order to update.
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- The Unix Programmers Workbench counterpart to Projector solves this problem
- neatly by allowing computation of a "delta" file, which represents only
- differences between two files. This "delta" can then be applied to an old
- version to bring it up to date. If you are clever about it (keeping parallel
- copies locally and on the host), this can mean that only deltas get sent over
- the network, resulting in tremendous savings. If you compress the text, the
- savings are even higher.
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- I know this does you no good, since we are talking Unix here, but this traffic
- is read by the right people. Right people, how about extending Projector to
- include similar features? It would make working-off-site people MUCH more
- productive!!!
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- Jeff Alger
- KPMG Peat Marwick
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