How does SafeCapacity compression affect file attributes?
It doesn’t. Other than the fact that the file occupies less disk space, it looks like it did prior to compression. The file’s name, attributes, type, size, etc. remain the same when seen in a user’s file list. On Unix, the only cosmetic difference between the compressed and non-compressed file is the block size. On Windows NT/2000, the compression used is the standard NTFS compression, and thus is already completely integrated into the Windows NT environment. On MPE with the SafeCapacity/MPE integration, files are listed with a ‘c’ attribute when they are viewed while they are compressed. If you wish to see what is compressed or how much space has been saved, there are a few ways to go about this. On Unix, SafeCapacity can display a report showing the total amount of space saved by compression on a file by file basis, by directory listings, or for each partition, disk or disks. Within SafeCapacity for Windows NT/2000, compression statistics are available for any folder, drive or file.
