From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a1ce307c10055549 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-12-14 21:09:30 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!enews.sgi.com!news.xtra.co.nz!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "AG" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: Subject: Re: OT: Word processing (was: Re: IBM Acquires Rational Ada) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Message-ID: Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 18:10:40 -0800 NNTP-Posting-Host: 210.54.95.47 X-Complaints-To: newsadmin@xtra.co.nz X-Trace: news.xtra.co.nz 1039928969 210.54.95.47 (Sun, 15 Dec 2002 18:09:29 NZDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 18:09:29 NZDT Organization: Xtra Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:31841 Date: 2002-12-15T18:10:40-08:00 List-Id: "Anders Wirzenius" wrote in message news:jeFJ9.148$j44.131@read3.inet.fi... > "Grein, Christoph" wrote in message news:mailman.1039598282.30657.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org... > > > File length in bytes: > > > text editor: 1 > > > MS Word: 19456 > > > MS Excel: 13824 > > > > That's not at all astonishing. A text editor does not add any formatting > > information. > > > > Word and Excel add paper layout, font descriptions and what else... So what? Perhaps you've missed the part where the files contained the original author's name three times? What exactly does it have to do with formatting? Not to mention that 10k+ formatting info does seem a bit too much for a single character file.