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From: farren@hoptoad.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Jtime.arc Posting [1 of 2]
Message-ID: <1957@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: Sat, 4-Apr-87 03:47:01 EST
Article-I.D.: hoptoad.1957
Posted: Sat Apr  4 03:47:01 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 5-Apr-87 10:23:20 EST
References: <10423@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> <520@madvax.UUCP> <479@oscvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: farren@hoptoad.UUCP (Mike Farren)
Organization: Nebula Consultants in San Francisco
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In article <479@oscvax.UUCP> rico@oscvax.UUCP (Rico Mariani) writes:
>
>It seems that various experiments have shown that posting .arc'd files is
>a waste of resourses.  Most of the sites already do their own compression
>of files in the fashion most suited to the kind of connection they have.
>So arc'ing your files doesn't save the net any transmission time, in fact
>files which are arc'd and then compressed tend to be larger than if the
>files were just compressed.

Yes, but the main point, for me at least, isn't whether or not I'm losing
efficiency in the Unix transmission, but, rather, in the transmission from
my Amiga to/from the Unix system where the stuff is living.  I'd rather
not have to pay any more connect charges or phone bills than I have to;
thus, I will continue to say "hurray for ARC".

BTW, if an arc'd then compressed file is bigger than the original, and
the bigger file is what is transmitted, then the software is broken.  Any
non-brain-damaged compression routine will not compress if the compression
results in a larger file than the original...

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                 "... if the church put in half the time on covetousness
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