John O'Reilly Posted August 31, 2001 Share Posted August 31, 2001 Having just about finished "Le Lorey- a hard stand" by PBEM I have been impressed by the huge size of some of the playback files exchanged, reaching about 900K after zipping. Does anyone have any advice to offer regarding playing the larger battles and indeed operations by e-mail? What techniques do you use to compress files? What is the largest file size that you have sent by e-mail? Thanks to all who reply John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juju Posted September 2, 2001 Share Posted September 2, 2001 <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by John O'Reilly: What is the largest file size that you have sent by e-mail? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Heh, that was almost 1.6MB. Zipped that is( BTW, I simply use winzip). It was a rather large OP IIRC. Happened only for a couple of very hectic mid-game turns though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John O'Reilly Posted September 2, 2001 Author Share Posted September 2, 2001 Outside of Winzip what options are there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juju Posted September 2, 2001 Share Posted September 2, 2001 <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by John O'Reilly: Outside of Winzip what options are there?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Dunno... What's wrong with Winzip? Or is it that you need something that compresses better than Winzip does? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John O'Reilly Posted September 2, 2001 Author Share Posted September 2, 2001 Exactly, something with better compression, I'm finding the file sizes still somewhat massive after compression and on my slow connection it takes an age to e-mail turns Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juju Posted September 2, 2001 Share Posted September 2, 2001 Don't know of any myself, but you might try here: Search results for Zip. Hope you find what you need. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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