Bruce zips up our backups for us - I wonder why he hasn't at least given us the option to zip up the gedcoms in a self-extracting format? Granted most gedcoms are pretty small anyway but it would be a nice feature. Good Hunting! -- Paul aka Graveseeker on Geocaching.com where YOU are the search engine. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil & Heather" <philwarn@ntlworld.com> To: <FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 2:42 PM Subject: Re: [FO] Sending Email backups > 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