On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, Steve Weyer wrote:
> the last official "world's record" I had recorded a year or so ago
> (in http://members.bellatlantic.net/~sweyer/newton/newtscape/docs/setup.htm)
> is: "Mark Heringer holds the current Newt's Cape record for
> largest book (created on MP130):
> <A HREF="../../newtpkgs.htm#Heringer">Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains</A>
> is ~397 Landscape pages, 526K !"
>
> I also had gotten a report of a 1.3M package (688K compressed) created on
> eMate.
>
> there must be a few other/larger ones now...
Well, my little UMP2k is trying to break that record as we speak :) (hey,
did I remeber to turn on the Compressed option?)
> there are some useful tips in setup.htm for increasing size.
> briefly, your best chances of success with a file that size are:
> - lots of heap (you didn't mention which model MP you have; MP2100 would be
> best...)
I froze a bunch of stuff, rebooted, and I've got around 365K free. It's
also set to save to my memory card, which has 4.3MB free.
> - if you could segment file into several 'chapters', you could save each
> as a separate package; and later combine those using a 'master book'
I might have to end up doing that... my Newt just restarted itself on the
first attempt.
I also looked at using BookMaker, but I'm not feeling that ambitious right
now :)
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