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From: jaw@ames.UUCP (James A. Woods)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: compress vax->sun
Message-ID: <1394@ames.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Feb-86 19:04:48 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 10 19:04:48 1986
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the "inbound news is garbled" problem may not be compress.
(i.e. it could be bad xmission link.)

but it might be compress if you're using old versions.
first get compress 4.0 (ftp from seismo) to replace
whatever you're running on both machines.
there were obscure vax->68000 bugs with very early code.

any knowledge of these primitive versions is disavowed.
in fact, i put in a request to !panda to delist from the
mod.sources archive any code earlier than RCS 4.0.
4.3bsd and news 2.10.3 both use the newer compress
(30% faster on sun/vax, less memspace, streamlined command options, etc.)
there are still stylistic warts, but nothing has been observed
which might affect data integrity.

the keeper of the 'cbatch' installation guide which flashed
by here briefly should also encourage the use of latest release.

ames!jaw