Puzzled about stack size

[Jim Hurley]

I have a stack which has one card, about 25 controls and about 800 
lines of script, no graphics, and no images. Pretty much a bare bones 
stack. It is a utility stack I use for working on database materials.

In the interest of saving space in the file, I deleted the text from 
all fields, yet the stack file shows about 6 megabytes!

I created a new stack with the same number of controls and inserted 
800 lines of text in one of the fields. The file is about 24 K.

Now the db stack originally contained massive amounts of county 
election data. But all of that is gone now, and yet the stack is 
still 6 megs.

I know that RR does not have a separate utility to compact stack as 
in the old HC days; that is supposedly done with each save (save from 
the menu bar.)

I have many stacks with more controls, longer scripts, a few 
graphics, and images. Yet they are a fraction of the size of this one 
DB stack. What could be eating up  all this space?

Jim