I am new in that list and I am not proud about my english. There are many things that I don't know so I am asking. I don't have enough spaces on hard drive so I ask: There is any compression technology for wikipedia database that allow to use database without decompress it ? At this moment I only want a static version of wikipedia to help me in my work. I am not sure which one will rise faster, wikipedia or hard drive size. Anyway at this moment I can' buy a bigger hard drive. I have 2 hard drives 60 GB and 80 GB and 2 OS Windows XP and Fedora. I have a database downloaded in August 14. Old.sql English is about 10G bat I understand that after decompression it will be about 40 GB or more. Thank a lot for any information, Mircea