file formats and file transfers, was: Re: PAUP 4.0 Beta Release: MANUAL

[Thomas Schlemmermeyer]

Dear Dr. Clark, and other taxonomists interested in the size of
file formats and file transfers,

Meanwhile, I threw approximately one dollar in and downloaded acrobat reader
4.0 at a velocity of 3,20 kb/s.
And now it works out perfectly well with my PAUP Beta Manual.

But how much percent a rtf, txt or doc file is larger than a pdf file?

One other curiosity: This transfer rate (about 3 kb/s) which I obtained, by
using a private phone line, is typical for Brazil? or is it common in the whole
world or do the US have faster transfers?

Also: Universities often offer their users (students, scientists, tecnicians
and so on) unlimited internet access:
How much do they pay for it, normally, to the phone companies?

   Thanks for this rather practical advices,   Thomas


On (         Wed, 30 Jun 1999 13:56:26 -0700
),         Curtis Clark <jcclark at CSUPOMONA.EDU> wrote:


>At 01:15 PM 6/30/99 -0300, Thomas Schlemmermeyer wrote:
>>In order to avoid this, I wonder if there is anybody with a "txt" or
>>"rtf" or "doc" version of the new PAUP-Beta-Manual?
>
>Especially .doc, and probably .rtf, will be larger than the .pdf file.
>
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