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Charles,

> Interesting that the compression ratio when writing to 
> the save file is so much worse than the compression ratio 
> when writing to the DVD-RAM> Anybody know why this is not the case?

In all seriousness this time;

SAVF's don't 'know' what media the may (or may not) end up on - and as I 
understand it, the data compression ratio is also tied in to the drive/media 
being used at that very point the save is occurring.

All that's really happened (when doing a SAVLIB (DEV(*SAVF)) is probably LZH 
compression on the contents of the SAVF - i.e. something that is not 
device/media specific - but to see a big compression ratio you'd need to 
specify where (the device/media specifics) the savf will end up, I guess.

I can't get to a screen at the moment, but does the SAVSAVFDTA have a DTACPR() 
option - or similar? Or is there another way to save the savf that will allow 
device specific compression?

--phil 



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