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From: "Grein, Christoph" <christoph.grein@eurocopter.com>
Subject: Re: OT: Word processing (was: Re: IBM Acquires Rational Ada)
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 10:11:27 +0100 (MET)
Date: 2002-12-11T10:11:27+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.1039598282.30657.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org> (raw)

> 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?



             reply	other threads:[~2002-12-11  9:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-11  9:11 Grein, Christoph [this message]
2002-12-11 11:22 ` OT: Word processing (was: Re: IBM Acquires Rational Ada) Anders Wirzenius
2002-12-16  2:10   ` AG
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2002-12-07  2:47 IBM Acquires Rational Ada Richard Riehle
2002-12-07  8:24 ` achrist
2002-12-08  1:46   ` Richard Riehle
2002-12-09 13:09     ` Marin David Condic
2002-12-09 22:45       ` steve_H
2002-12-10 13:50         ` Marin David Condic
2002-12-10 17:47           ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-12-10 20:21             ` Wes Groleau
2002-12-10 22:05               ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-12-11  2:50                 ` steve_H
2002-12-11  8:51                   ` OT: Word processing (was: Re: IBM Acquires Rational Ada) Anders Wirzenius
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