Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!shelby!rutgers!usc!wuarchive!texbell!letni!doug
From: doug@letni.UUCP (Doug Davis)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d
Subject: Re: Unnecessary tar-compress-uuencodes
Message-ID: <11584@letni.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jul 90 14:39:43 GMT
References: <3114@psueea.UUCP> <11553@letni.UUCP> <sean.647630062@s.ms.uky.edu>
Organization: Logic Process, Dallas Tx
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In article <sean.647630062@s.ms.uky.edu> sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) 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.

This works for files, the current news software doesn't take advantage 
of compress like that. If you pipe into compress it WILL ALWAYS OUTPUT
compressed style data, either smaller or larger depending on the
effect of the algorythm.


doug
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