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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