GEDCOMS can be zipped.... -- Jeffery Scism, http://blacksheep.rootsweb.com/ International Blacksheep Society of Genealogists Homepages: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~scismfam/

Hi All Ye gods, any (PC compatible) file can be zipped! Perhaps what Jeffery *meant* to type was that as merely text files, GEDCOM files make good candidates to be compressed using a Zipping technique to reduce transmission times and/or storage space? <grin> Regards Phil At 07:50 PM 1/1/2003, Jeffrey Scism wrote: >GEDCOMS can be zipped.... ) >-- > >Jeffery Scism, http://blacksheep.rootsweb.com/ International >Blacksheep Society of Genealogists > >Homepages: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~scismfam/ > > >==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== >The Genealogical Companion http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/2399/tgc.htm >Browsable Archives: >http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/family-origins-users/ Kent FHS Member 9420 NW Kent FHS member 4308 GLS FHS Member O5562 CON FHS Member 13140 DEV FHS Member 13722 SoG Member 009987 GOONS Member 1703 All my emails are checked for virus infection so can be regarded as clean as a whistle I use and recommend CD's from ACDB for my One Name Study research http://www.archivecdbooks.org/