text encoding q, problems with networked folder and IDE

[Alex Rice]

I have a 1.6 MB stack that I am developing on Mac OS X. I connected to 
the Mac with SMB file sharing and opened the .rev file with the Windows 
Rev 1.1.1. A couple of questions

1) The stack grew from 1.6 MB to 2.2 MB. Why?

2) Every save takes around 20 (twenty) minutes! This is 100MB ethernet 
and copying the 2MB file is instantaneous. Saves on the Mac Rev 1.1.1 
take < 1 sec. Then I copied the stack over to the windows box and 
saving in there from the Windows Rev 1.1.1 also takes < 1 sec. Does Rev 
have problems working from a networked directory?

3) I remember reading somewhere that one should open the stack using 
Revolution IDE on the target platform, then save the stack, to convert 
the text encoding of all the cards. Is this correct? Anything else to 
get the text encoding converted correctly? I'm mainly interested in 
fast startup times.

Thanks,

Alex Rice, Software Developer
Architectural Research Consultants, Inc.
alrice at ARCplanning.com
alrice at swcp.com