On Wednesday 15 October 2003 05:44, David Hampton wrote: > On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 09:44, Tony Bloomfield wrote: > > And after clicking the Save icon, without having made any changes (and no > > > > scheduled transactions posted), I have the following files: > > >ls -l My* > > > > -rw------- 1 tonyb users 123890 2003-10-14 11:54 MyFile > > -rw------- 1 tonyb users 124608 2003-10-14 11:14 > > MyFile.20031014115436.xac > > ---------- 2 tonyb users 0 2003-10-14 11:31 > > MyFile.7f0200.24282.LNK > > ---------- 2 tonyb users 0 2003-10-14 11:31 MyFile.LCK > > > > The same file sizes are seen when I exit gc. So, my file has reduced in > > size by some 700 bytes. Why? > > > > I don't *think* I am losing any data, but would like to know. > > Run "diff MyFile.20031014115436.xac MyFile" and see what's changed. > > David
I had tried that but got a 'binary files differ' message. Then I discovered that gc's compression is gzip. When I gunzipped the files, they were the same size and identical. Something to do with efficiency of compression I guess. Cheers, TonyB _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
