About Program STACK
When you convert your GEDCOM genealogy to HTML using Gene Stark's
program, you get one file for each individual in your GEDCOM.
If you use my pedigree program to add charts, you still have one
file per individual.
After I moved a set of these files to my UNIX host I noticed that each
file took up 4K bytes of space even if the file was much smaller.
Files space is allocated on my host in blocks of 4K. The size
of allocation may vary on other machines, but it will always be
something. Since many of the HTML files were only a few hundred
bytes, there was significant waste. In fact, my 600 Kbytes of data grew
to 2.2 Megabytes when uploaded! Because space is usually at a premium on
WWW servers this becomes a big problem.
So I wrote the program STACK which literally stacks the individual
files together and builds new files with sizes close to the 4K limit. You
end up with fewer but larger files. STACK also recalculates all of the
hyper links in the HTMLs, and builds a new INDEX file.
You can download STACK and see instructions on
how to run it.
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