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 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: 2002-12-11 03:25:11 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!uio.no!newsfeed.song.fi!nntp.inet.fi!central.inet.fi!inet.fi!read3.inet.fi.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Anders Wirzenius" 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 5.50.4522.1200 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 11:22:55 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.251.142.2 X-Complaints-To: abuse@inet.fi X-Trace: read3.inet.fi 1039605775 194.251.142.2 (Wed, 11 Dec 2002 13:22:55 EET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 13:22:55 EET Organization: Sonera corp Internet services Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:31679 Date: 2002-12-11T11:22:55+00:00 List-Id: "Grein, Christoph" 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