The goal is to compress the file as much as possible but still keep the formatting, etc.
-----Original Message----- From: Alex [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 5:59 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Text Compression Utility? What is your goal? For the enduser to download a compressed file with a txt extension? Or do you just want the page to load faster? On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Mark Stewart wrote: > I'm looking for a utility that will compress large text files, but not > change the extension. For example - I have a 2mb text file called > readme.txt - after compression, it becomes a 100k file still called > readme.txt. My situation - We have a main frame putting text files into > a directory. Through the web, we display these files as links. When a > user clicks on the link, we display the file. In some cases, these text > files reach 2mb. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that > displaying 2mb files over the web is unacceptable. So, I'm looking for a > way to compress them, possibly through a command-line utility or > something. > > Any thoughts? > > > Mark Stewart > Programmer/Analyst > CC3 > Phone: 215.672.6900 x1332 > http://www.cc3.com > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
