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From: Dave Symes <dave@triffid.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Crunchie v0.71 beta released
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In article <ap.efc4d7576f.a701a0a.m.conroy@argonet.co.uk>,
   Steve Drain <steve@kappa.me.uk> wrote:
> Crunchie is a crunching utility for BASIC files written in BASIC.

> It can be downloaded from:

>   http://kappa.me.uk/Miscellaneous/swCrunchie071.zip

> As far as I know, there is currently no reliable BASIC cruncher that
> runs on RISC OS 5.

[Snip]

Why?

I could understand back in the days, with small amounts of RAM and small
disk storage available...

But now, with large amounts of RAM and disk storage... Why bother?

I ask as an interested, but non programmer...  :-)

Dave