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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