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From: vtcqa@shamash.cdc.com ( VTC)
Newsgroups: alt.sex.pictures,comp.os.os2
Subject: Re: encoding conventions--- please post nonstandard encoders
Message-ID: <22013@shamash.cdc.com>
Date: 3 Jun 90 04:07:36 GMT
References: <ankf34.h8e@wang.com> <1997@dialog.stgt.sub.org>
Reply-To: vtcqa@shamash.UUCP (Jeff Comstock - VTC)
Followup-To: alt.sex.pictures
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In article <1997@dialog.stgt.sub.org> root@dialog.stgt.sub.org (Christian Motz) writes:
>In article <ankf34.h8e@wang.com> mike@wang.com (Mike Sullivan) writes:
>>the subject and summary says it all...
>
>standards at the moment. If you have a binary to post, try compressing
>it with a standardized tool available on as many systems as  possible.
>Use "compress", "zoo", "pkzip" or, if you  must, "arc". These programs
>are available for almost all systems, so there shouldn't be a  problem
>in unpacking them for most people.

Whoa - most of these pictures are GIF files, and these are already LZW
compressed.  You will find that some of them even get BIGGER if you try
to compress them.    

Jeff