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From: elliot@alfred.UUCP (Elliot Dierksen)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.admin
Subject: Re: Cnews batching & 16 bit compress
Message-ID: <1990Jul9.115650.8832@alfred.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jul 90 11:56:50 GMT
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In article <1990Jul08.130607.11867@nstar.uucp>, larry@nstar.uucp (Larry Snyder) writes:
|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?

It saves about 10% I think... I haven't done any very careful study of it
though. My machine is not heavily loaded and I feel that every byte I save
when I feed a 1200 baud site is worth it. I suppose it's just a tradeoff that
each site would have to make. Maybe when I finally get a Telebit, I won't
worry about it. But until I break the 2400 baud barrier, 16 bits for me!!  :-)

EBD
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