G. (the artist formerly known as Scott_Gavin) wrote:

>enough to close the file with the truncate FLIMIT to EOF option (as
>LZW almost certainly did) or at least the release space past EOF
>option (though the former option would be preferable).

We don't truncate the FLIMIT to EOF as LZW has an Append option, and
we'd just as soon not have to re-build the archive to add new files to
it.  Besides, on MPE/iX:

FLIMIT not reduced:

  FILENAME  CODE  ------------LOGICAL RECORD-----------  ----SPACE----
                    SIZE  TYP        EOF      LIMIT R/B  SECTORS #X MX
  LZWFILE   665     256W  FB       10825    4096000   8    21664 14  *


FLIMIT reduced to EOF:

  FILENAME  CODE  ------------LOGICAL RECORD-----------  ----SPACE----
                    SIZE  TYP        EOF      LIMIT R/B  SECTORS #X MX
  LZWFILE   665     256W  FB       10825      10825   8    21664 14  *

Nothing saved by trimming.

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Randy Medd
Telamon, Inc.