Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!tektronix!tekig5!wayneck From: wayneck@tekig5.TEK.COM (Wayne Knapp) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: Standard for file transmission Message-ID: <2743@tekig5.TEK.COM> Date: 9 May 88 16:01:04 GMT References: <292@cullsj.UUCP> <696@fig.bbn.com> <18621@watmath.waterloo.edu> <552@csccat.UUCP> Organization: Tektronix Inc., Beaverton, Or. Lines: 13 Keywords: best compression method In article <552@csccat.UUCP>, loci@csccat.UUCP (Chuck Brunow) writes: > > Let me point out one simple fact: source code is VERY MUCH > SMALLER than binaries. Have you ever done any real programing? Sure if your souce code is only 20 lines long the binary is smaller. However I'm used to seeing ratios like 500k of source code to 160k of binaries. Or something I have at home 7 880k disks full of souce code to 1 disk of binaries. From what I've seen, the longer the program the greater the ratio of source code to binaries. Wayne Knapp