Re: OT: Word processing (was: Re: IBM Acquires Rational Ada)

["Anders Wirzenius" <anders.wirzenius@pp.qnet.fi>]

"Grein, Christoph" <christoph.grein@eurocopter.com> wrote in message news:mailman.1039598282.30657.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org...
> > A side note:
> > I made three files, one with a MS Notepad, one with MS Word, one with MS
> Excel. With each program I stored only the letter 'A'.
> > Using the current settings that are used in my company (just ordinary "Windows
> settings", no special) I got the following result:
> >
> > 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?

My intention was just to show how much the meta data and especially formatting data requires bytes compared to the actual data.
In my files the meta data requires some 3 pages of A4 size, unformatted text, 80 letters per line, 66 lines per page. Nothing
astonishing, just a note.
:-)

Anders