Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!hybrid!scifi!bywater!uunet!fciva!dag
From: dag@fciva.FRANKLIN.COM (Daniel A. Graifer)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Telebit T1600 insides & insights...
Message-ID: <573@fciva.FRANKLIN.COM>
Date: 9 Jan 91 17:43:22 GMT
References: <37576@cup.portal.com> <1991Jan6.004019.13502@odi.com>
Reply-To: dag@fciva.UUCP (Daniel A. Graifer)
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Organization: Coastal Capital Funding Corp., McLean, Va.
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In article <1991Jan6.004019.13502@odi.com> benson@odi.com (Benson I. Margulies) writes:
>... I really don't see how the use of compression and the like
>with UUCP can be any different than for anything else, but I'm
>not the modem expert.

Much UUCP traffic is already compressed (ie compressed, batched news
transmissions).  Attempting to recompress a byte stream that is already
compressed will usually INCREASE the total size of the stream, thus 
decreasing throughput.  If you use uucp to download sources from archive
sites such as uunet, that stuff is generally compressed as well.

Our uucp Dialer entry for uucico use on Telebits disables compression and
explicitly requests uucp spoofing.

Dan
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