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From: teb@SATURN.ACC.COM (Tom Benkart)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Message compression
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Date: 3 Apr 91 14:37:37 GMT
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In applications involving file transfers (FTP) over low speed lines,
has anyone investigated any type of data compression on a message
by message basis?  I'm familiar with the header compression
algorithms, but don't know of any data compression algorithms.
The pay-off might not be very high, but any compression could
be useful.

Tom Benkart
ACC