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From: smith@groucho
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: WANTED: News compression information...
Message-ID: <1990Jun01.143729.12368@groucho>
Date: 1 Jun 90 14:37:29 GMT
References: <1990May29.202056.26271@ox.com> <861@sppy00.UUCP> <3411@auspex.auspex.com>
Reply-To: smith@groucho.mrc.uidaho.edu (William D. Smith)
Organization: University of Idaho, Moscow
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In article <3411@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
>>I've been told that the compression algorithm that sendbatch uses is
>>a "modified" L-Z.

Your right.

>
>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.

Your right but wrong.  The compress program used adaptive Lempel-Ziv 
coding.  Also /usr/lib/news/compress is only a symlink to 
/usr/ucp/compress on Berkely systems.
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