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- From: tal691@huxley.anu.edu.au (Tonio Loewald)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: Think Reference 2.0 Review
- Date: 26 Jan 93 11:24:24 GMT
- Organization: Australian National University
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- Message-ID: <tal691.728047464@huxley>
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- Duane Murphy <damurphy@wc.novell.com> writes:
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- >In article Mark Sproul, Sproul@sproul.sproul.com writes:
- >>When it is fully installed it occupies 7.1 meg
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- >7.1 meg is a little much, but I do understnad why. Is it practical to
- >install Think Reference on a server? Is it possible for people to share
- >the database on the server? (No licenesing problems here, you still need
- >the app to see the database.)
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- >Thanks,
- >...Duane
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- Has anyone checked to see how "fluffy" the documents are? THINK Ref 1.0
- compressed by about 50% using most compression utilities, which isn't
- really very good performance compared with word processor dictionary
- files (which should be comparable, since they also require quick access)
- or most dedicated HyperText systems.
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- Hey look -- it's better than 25MB for 411 or more for Spinside Mac, or
- 500MB (?) for DocViewer IM...
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- Tonio
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- Tonio Loewald | tal691@huxley.anu.edu.au
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