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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: WANTED: News compression information...
Message-ID: <1990Jun2.224714.5516@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990May29.202056.26271@ox.com> <90151.173150SA44@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK>
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 90 22:47:14 GMT

In article <90151.173150SA44@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK> SA44@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK (Kevin Maguire) writes:
>I had a look at the compress.c (comp.c ??) file in C news and it does
>indeed seem to be the standard UN*X compress(1) command incognito.

Actually, the C News distribution as shipped from here doesn't include
a compressor at all; we simply assumed that everyone had compress.
(We realize this isn't a safe assumption, but we have to cut things off
somewhere.)

>... Alternatively, ask your feed site to use 13bit (or 12)
>compression on your batch (don't think either C news or B news automatically
>allow this however :-()

C News defaults to 12-bit compression, precisely to be compatible with
small machines.  In fact, you have to go in and work at it to get 16-bit
compression.  (That probably should be made easier.)
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