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Brad

At 08:30 AM 12/15/97 -0600, you wrote:
>Sure, you'll save valuable network resources, but the Zip program takes   
>SO MUCH of the 400 while zipping that it is actually worse!  And it takes   
>long!  QBATCH wouldn't be any better.  I was doing these interactivaly.
>
>We also have many 400s and we were looking into this as a valuable option   
>to sending tapes or files over the network.  Well, PKZip hasn't convinced   
>us yet.

How do have your SAVxxx commands set? There's a parameter that does
compression on the fly—DTACPR(*YES). I got a reduction of about 2/3's in a
couple cases.

It's native, but not the default.

Cheers

Vernon Hamberg
Systems Software Programmer
Old Republic National Title Insurance Company
400 Second Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55401
(612) 371-1111 x480


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