Yiorgos Stamoulis wrote:

> Aage Johansen wrote:
> ...
>> ...
>>You might consider compressing the files before sending them off to the
>>server. My guess is that print files will compress very well.
>>
>>
>
> being plain text files they should compress ~90%, good. I think I 've
> read somewhere the firebird engine does some sort of compression, or was
> it for column data only? Helen?
>
>

Maybe you're thinking of a recent discussion on compressing blobs (all
blobs, selected blob fields, or ...). I believe this has been put on
priority B (or maybe even lower).
I've looked at compressing .bmp files (on the client, before sending them
off to the Fb server) with a small and simple routine. Seems to work great
- compressing 250KB into about 25KB. The compress/expand time seems
insignificant, but the saved space is significant.


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Aage J.