I'm sorry, I tried not to comment but I couldn't help it. I received a Functional Design Spec for a project as a self extracting archive (.exe). I ran it and it turned into a word document (office 97 version) of a bit over 16Mb. I sent that to a small group of folks for review and it blew the 20Meg limit for almost everybody... This doc is about 40 pages (plus or minus a page or two) and it has about 10 screen dumps in it. The exe file was about 600k...
jim ---------- From: Richard E. Hawkins Esq.[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 03, 1998 12:31 PM To: [email protected] Cc: The recipient's address is unknown. Subject: those big non-standard mail fiels jules notices the topic drifiting >> His 1-page note was sent as a 1MB Word document filling up 5% of everyone's >> mailbox, using up a lot of ressources to send in 200 copies! >An amusing story. I'm doubtful though... I've written long essays and >papers which aren't 1MB even in MS Word.. real easy to happen. A friend of mine and the secretary saved a file yesterday morning, about a 5 page paper. Well, they tried to. THey had the old file, pasted in a graph from excel, and they couldn't save to floppy. Turned out that in whatever it defaulted to, the pasted picture was well over a meg . . . -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my retainer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
