Acadia, as I said, compressing ASCII text files is always beneficial to size reduction. But if you ever need to edit that hidden behemoth, you'll need to decompress it. And, voila!, it's back to 500MB. IMHO, it'd be better to save PZ3s uncompressed and just use WinZip or StuffIt to compress them if storage size is your only concern. Or, better yet, fix the problem at the root and optimize the PZ3 file format. This would of course bifurcate the format in order to retain older format support.

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, you blow your whole leg off.

 -- Bjarne Stroustrup

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