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From: mccabe@hatteras.cs.unc.edu (Daniel McCabe)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Why do you want 16 bit compress?
Message-ID: <17714@thorin.cs.unc.edu>
Date: 21 Nov 90 16:19:46 GMT
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For those of you unfamiliar with *nix and/or compress, you might ask
why you want 16 bit compress.  The reasons are:

1) compatibility with *nix
	The default bit size in *nix is 16, versus 13 for minix and most
	*nix archives have .Z files in 16 bit format.

2) efficiency
	16 bit compression results in files that are slightly smaller than
	those created with 13 bit compression.

Cheers,
danm