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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: minix - is this a sensible thought ?
Message-ID: <7620@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 3-Feb-87 16:44:52 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb  3 16:44:52 1987
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Keywords: file transfer formats, etc, etc.

Incidentally, if one *must* do compression on things to be sent over the
network, please do *NOT* reinvent the wheel one more time with yet another
different compression program.  "Compress", published in mod.sources a while
ago, is the thing to use.  It's available, it should be possible to run it
under MINIX (it runs on a pdp11 with the same sort of address-space limits),
it does a much better job of compression than Joe Hacker's random kludge,
and best of all it's already a de facto standard.
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