on 4/5/02 8:46 PM, Will Hartung at willh_at_msoft.com wrote:
> I was STUNNED to find that the package it created was about 850K for a 350K
> text!!!! Egads!
>
> Is there a more efficient way of making Newt books?
Unfortunately, because Newton uses Unicode, all characters are two-byte
characters, and therefore take twice the memory. Somehow, however, the
Newton can compress much, if not most of that out, so the package will be
smaller on your Newt. I don't know how much, however. Load it and see. :-)
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