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HarryHydro
Hi Folks:
Not a question here, just observations. We have an IBM running as
a station monitor that runs software that saves log files; about 86
megs a day. It ran out of hard drive the other day. About time I
guess.. I tried sending these to compress. Well, fist I could only
do 1 file, because there was very limited hard drive. But, after 1,
then 2, then 4, etc., and deleting the original files, I could
'compress' about a month's worth of files in a clip. I couldn't
'compress' 2 months, no matter how much free hard drive I had. Using
'compress' I could only do a month at a time. It took about 16 seconds
a file (86 megs) and compressed very tight! A whole month compressed
to about 60 megs! I noticed there is about 2 years of these files to
compress.. That's a LONG time to compress!
I just found PKZIP on a boot chip! Using the CMD window, our good
'ol virtual DOS window, I can 'pkzip' the all these files at once -
over two years worth, and it takes 6 seconds a file. Over twice as
fast in a 'virtual DOS box' it's causing FAR less drive activity, and
I can still use the computer! In fact, I'm deleting the originals
after PKZIP 'zips' them. Why is this?
Harry
Not a question here, just observations. We have an IBM running as
a station monitor that runs software that saves log files; about 86
megs a day. It ran out of hard drive the other day. About time I
guess.. I tried sending these to compress. Well, fist I could only
do 1 file, because there was very limited hard drive. But, after 1,
then 2, then 4, etc., and deleting the original files, I could
'compress' about a month's worth of files in a clip. I couldn't
'compress' 2 months, no matter how much free hard drive I had. Using
'compress' I could only do a month at a time. It took about 16 seconds
a file (86 megs) and compressed very tight! A whole month compressed
to about 60 megs! I noticed there is about 2 years of these files to
compress.. That's a LONG time to compress!
I just found PKZIP on a boot chip! Using the CMD window, our good
'ol virtual DOS window, I can 'pkzip' the all these files at once -
over two years worth, and it takes 6 seconds a file. Over twice as
fast in a 'virtual DOS box' it's causing FAR less drive activity, and
I can still use the computer! In fact, I'm deleting the originals
after PKZIP 'zips' them. Why is this?
Harry