On 10/28/11, Rich Hansen wrote:

>On Oct 28, 2011, at 3:40 AM, Þorvarður Davíðsson wrote:
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>> If not, the .zrtf file format seems to be the best default file format to go with. Am I right?
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>The problem with proprietary formats is that nothing else can touch them. If you send them to someone else you need remember to open and save as. And all for saving a few kb of hard disk space.
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>Hard disks are cheap. I can't imagine that they are all that more expensive in Germany. Just yesterday I saw an add for a 3Tb drive for less than 100$ and even if that were 150¤ it's still cheap for that much space. THe odds of any written documents filling it up are slight. :-)

Also, since it's not the default format, it might be worth investigating the save time. Take a big document and save it in both formats, and time how long the save takes. I would imagine the .zrtf format (which might well be rtf with zip elements incorporated) will take significantly longer.

Proprietary formats do have their advantages if they save additional formatting or something, but that doesn't appear to be the case here. I too would suggest using regular RTF -- unless you're still using a modem and have to e-mail files to another NW user who also has a modem.


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