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-Thread: 103376,a214f665e7b3cec X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Received: by 10.68.125.233 with SMTP id mt9mr8159487pbb.5.1332034071541; Sat, 17 Mar 2012 18:27:51 -0700 (PDT) Path: h9ni41862pbe.0!nntp.google.com!news2.google.com!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "John B. Matthews" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Question: Re Copying Program Files. Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 21:27:50 -0400 Organization: The Wasteland Message-ID: References: <37543f2b-2612-422d-8f77-4a55de1322a7@z31g2000vbt.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: LQJtZWzu+iKlBROuDg+IUg.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: 2012-03-17T21:27:50-04:00 List-Id: In article <37543f2b-2612-422d-8f77-4a55de1322a7@z31g2000vbt.googlegroups.com>, adacrypt wrote: > I often need to copy entire cipher programs from one directory to > another. I sometimes, if I have the time, open each Ada-95 case > statement package separately, compile, build it and save it to the > new directory - just being extra careful.. > > Other times I copy and paste entire case statement packages directly > from the first directory to the second. > > I’m finding that the volume of the second directory is much greater > on completion using the copy and paste method than if I carefully > open, compile, build and save the packages to the second directory as > the alternative to copy ‘n paste. > > Does this make sense or not. > > I am not happy about the increase in volume. > > Your help would be greatly appreciated. Just guessing: version control metadata? -- John B. Matthews trashgod at gmail dot com