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Subject: Re: Question for Mr Hyatt

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 09:19:37 05/26/01

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On May 26, 2001 at 06:27:04, gerard sanchez wrote:

>Hi!
>
>I just lost an important file today which led to a a frenzy of data backup(ing).
>Perhaps a wakeup call for me.
>
>I started backing up my tablebase today which is at 2.34 Gigabytes writing  them
>on CDs. I don't want to do another downloading of that size downloading for
>almost a day.
>
>I was just wondering, how come the tablebase in your FTP not in compressed
>format of maybe 20-30 files like in the 5 man and 6 man tablebase folders.  This
>would really make downloading a lot faster for people like me.
>
>Just a a curious thought.
>
>Gerard


I don't understand your question.  All of the files in the three, four, five
and six directories _are_ compressed.  They all end in .emd with is the native
TB compression mode we use (better than gzip/bzip2/etc...)

If I put all the 5 piece TBs into a few files, those files would be _huge_.

use "mget" in ftp and it will grab them all...



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