Xref: utzoo news.software.b:5109 news.admin:9964 Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.admin Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Cnews batching & 16 bit compress Message-ID: <1990Jul10.153613.10971@zoo.toronto.edu> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <1990Jul7.134552.4280@alfred.UUCP> <1990Jul08.130607.11867@nstar.uucp> <1990Jul09.031526.2371@looking.on.ca> <1990Jul09.170549.22946@nstar.uucp> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 90 15:36:13 GMT In article <1990Jul09.170549.22946@nstar.uucp> larry@nstar.uucp (Larry Snyder) writes: >Then why does the news software default to 12 bit compression? There were some numbers in the distant past that suggested a different set of tradeoffs, and there is a problem with machines that can't handle anything bigger than 12. (The tricks that let an MSDOS box do up to 14 efficiently don't work on a pdp11, and yes Virginia, there are still some of those around.) Changes may be made. -- NFS is a wonderful advance: a Unix | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology filesystem with MSDOS semantics. :-( | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry