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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: WANTED: News compression information...
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Date: 31 May 90 17:43:11 GMT
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>I've been told that the compression algorithm that sendbatch uses is
>a "modified" L-Z.

Uhh, the compression algorithm that "sendbatch" uses *is* "compress":

	-c)	COMP='| $LIB/compress $cflags'
		ECHO='echo "#! cunbatch"'
		continue;;

and "/usr/lib/news/compress" is simply a symlink to "/usr/ucb/compress"
on our system.  There is a variant of "compress" supplied in source form
with the netnews source, but it's basically the same program as the one
that comes with, say, BSD.