Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: alt.sources.d Subject: Re: Unnecessary tar-compress-uuencodes Message-ID: Date: 10 Jul 90 19:59:25 GMT References: <15652@bfmny0.BFM.COM> <3114@psueea.UUCP> <11553@letni.UUCP> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 16 In article sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes: > doug@letni.UUCP (Doug Davis) writes: > Compressing an article reduces phone time. If compress finds a file > is bigger after compression, it doesn't compress it. So the phone > costs really aren't increased by users doing their own compression. Sure, because it's compressed *and then uuencoded*. Compressed uuencoded files are (a) likely bigger than the original, and (b) don't compress very well. > I don't see what the problem is. Compress is smart enough to not > expand files, and it *does* save disk space on the remote site, so > why complain? And it doesn't save disk space on the remote site either, because of the uuencoding. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180.