What is the point of .playscore format?

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From: Michael Glenn
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 23:52

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What is the purpose of the .playscore format?  I had figured this would be  
because of the "size", but look:

-rw-rw-r--  1 fermat     43777 Dec 25 18:44 Invention-12.playscore
-rw-rw-r--  1 fermat      4669 Dec 25 18:43 Invention-12.playscore.Z
-rw-rw-r--  1 fermat     61222 Dec 25 18:43 Invention-12.score
-rw-rw-r--  1 fermat      7243 Dec 25 18:42 Invention-12.score.Z

Sure, it is smaller than the .score file, but look at how nice a job  
"compress" does with it?  (lha and zip do an even better job)  The  
compressed .score file is much much smaller than the .playscore file.  The  
time it takes playscore to read in either the .score or .playscore files  
seems very nearly the same.  So I can't believe it is to speed things up.

Anyone know?  Why not just compress them, and pipe through zcat when you  
want to read it?

Michael
fermat@fermat.dartmouth.edu (NeXTMail ok)

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