Save Space in BASIC programms with just a simple poke

[SRS]

For those of you that did not know this - I just found it today and got an adventure from 32 to 30k with just one POKE. Incredible !

Source -> http://tj.gpa.free.fr/html/coding/cpc_ram.htm

Load your BASIC program. (Example : "prog.bas")

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save"prog",A
POKE &AC00,&FF
load"prog"
save"prog.bas"

and READY !

[TFM]

Well, an program saves as ascii is always longer than save in BASIC format, because BASIC is precompiled. What does the poke do?

[TotO]

This POKE allow to remove the useless spaces from a loaded ASCII file.

[TFM]

This POKE allow to remove the useless spaces from a loaded ASCII file.

Well, nobody should put them in, in the first place. 

[SRS]

There may be sources out there that have those spaces - so why should I remove the spaces manually while converting the games if a simple poke does the work for me
As an engineer I tend to be lazy and try to use automated solutions for manual work