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- From: irmen@cs.vu.nl (Irmen de Jong)
- Subject: Re: File sizes
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- Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 08:36:58 GMT
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- On 29 Feb 1996 09:26:30 GMT barnhoorn@nlev00 (barnhoorn@nlev00) wrote:
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- : In article <DnDvp3.5Mt.0.-s@cs.vu.nl>, irmen@cs.vu.nl (Irmen de Jong) writes:
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- : >Anyway, how often are you interested in the file size after decrunching?
- : >Myself: 0 times so far. I only care about the actual file size on disk.
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- : I'm sometimes interested in the size of a file, after decrunching: when
- : you want to load the complete file into memory, you have to know the
- : correct file-size in order to allocate enough memory for it.
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- : Jaco Barnhoorn barnie@xs4all.nl
- : Software Test Engineer barnhoorn%nlev00@btmv56.se.bel.alcatel.be
- : Alcatel Telecom Systems
- : Rijswijk, The Netherlands
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- Most decrunchers take care of this. Just load the crunched file and
- call the decruncher. Better still: don't cruch the files.
- (if your HD is big enough)
-
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