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From: jordan@Morgan.COM (Jordan Hayes)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Comp.graphics.images
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Date: 22 Nov 89 15:24:23 GMT
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Reply-To: jordan@Morgan.COM (Jordan Hayes)
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Dan N Wiebe <dnwiebe@CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU> writes:

	This is probably just because I'm dense, or something, but what
	good is a compressed uuencoded file?

Right you are; however, notice the following:

% compress -v fall.gif
fall.gif: Compression: -43.30% -- file unchanged

Since GIF is a compression technique itself, Lempel-Zif (or most other
compression techniques -- !jaw, are you out there?) won't be of much
help.

btoa, rather than uuencode, will do a slightly better job (127% vs. 138%
in the fall.gif example) ...

/jordan