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From: larry@nstar.uucp (Larry Snyder)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.admin
Subject: Re: Cnews batching & 16 bit compress
Message-ID: <1990Jul08.130607.11867@nstar.uucp>
Date: 8 Jul 90 13:06:07 GMT
References: <1990Jul7.134552.4280@alfred.UUCP>
Organization: Northern Star Communications, Ltd.
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elliot@alfred.UUCP (Elliot Dierksen) writes:

>The solution to the cnews/16 bit compress is to copy NEWSBIN/batch/comp to
>NEWSBIN/batch/comp16. Edit comp16 and remove the '-b 12' arguments to compress.

But how much space does it save (difference beween 12 and 16 bit) verses
time to compress (difference between 12 and 16 bit)?  Just wondering?

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