On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 03:54:41PM -0800, Aaron Blosser wrote: >I doubt George would be interested in working in a little simple zip >routine when saving/reading save files?
AFAIK, most of the space is due to the data being stored in floating-point format instead of integer. There was some talk about a common save format among Mersenne testing programs (an integer-based one was suggested), but I don't know how it went from there? /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers