Xref: utzoo comp.mail.uucp:4337 comp.sources.d:5427 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ucsd!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mstar!mstar.morningstar.com!bob From: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.sources.d Subject: Re: WANTED: News compression information... Message-ID: Date: 31 May 90 19:23:43 GMT References: <1990May29.202056.26271@ox.com> Sender: news@MorningStar.COM (USENET Administrator) Reply-To: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) Organization: Morning Star Technologies Lines: 21 In-Reply-To: time@ox.com's message of 29 May 90 20:20:56 GMT In article <1990May29.202056.26271@ox.com> time@ox.com (Tim Endres) writes: Is "compress" the common news compression algorithm? Yes. Do all news feeds compress at 16 bits or 12 bits? Hard to say, but I don't know of any doing 12-bit compression. But then, I don't run in those circles. What are the implications of using compress in commercial sw? Ask your lawyer. Net advice is worth exactly what you pay for it :-) Are there any other, more miserly, compress programs available? Some years ago, someone posted a micro-zcat to net.sources. It performed the uncompress-in-a-pipe function in about two dozen lines of C, really pretty elegantly. Of course, I can't dredge it up any more. Perhaps your friendly neighborhood source archive site would have a copy?