Re: ASCII data files

From: George (greerga@CIRCLEMUD.ORG)
Date: 12/11/97


On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, ;P wrote:

>i haven't done any research, but i was under the impression that ascii
>player files take more space than binary player files..if this is so,

If you have strings, you'll save space with ASCII typically.  Sammy has
said he used less space also.

>sufficiently lcheap that i can move the mud onto a local machine rather
>than an ISP account with a disk quota (which is used for more than just
>the mud)..

To which I say use 'gzip' to automatically zip your player files.
Something you can't do with binary and ASCII is reported to be smaller
anyway.

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http://www.van.ml.org/~greerga | is not thus handicapped. -- Elbert Hubbard


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