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From: spencer@eris.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Jtime.arc Posting [1 of 2]
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Date: Fri, 10-Apr-87 21:00:45 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 10 21:00:45 1987
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In article <285@mcdsun.UUCP> fnf@mcdsun.UUCP (Fred Fish) writes:
>Guess I'll throw my 2 cents worth in here to.  Shar, uuencode/uudecode, and
>compress are all available for running native mode on the Amiga.  What's
>wrong with uuencoding the binaries, shar'ing up all the text files and
>uuencoded binaries (gee, just like on a Unix system :-), reducing the
>size of the shar file with compress, and then transmitting that file
>to the Unix system.  At the Unix end, decompress to recover the original
>shar file and then just post it.  I suspect the size of the compressed
>shar file and the size of an ARC file with the same material would be
>nearly the same.

>-Fred

Actually this brings up an interesting question.  That of compression for
transmission.  I have the Columbia Kermit manual here and there is a des-
cription of the full spec on Kermit allows for compression on one end and
expansion on the other.  This, of course, requires that both Kermits talk
compression.  It is just one of the options that Kermit automatically sets
up when doing the transfer (sender says "use these options", receiver says
"of those I don't know 'these' options", and the transfer carries on using
the options both could agree on).  

I haven't read the Ckermit manuals for Unix and the Amiga in a while, but
do they include compression, and is compressing the file before transmitting
sort of redundant and repeatitive?  

I agree that everyone should have uuencode and shar on their Amiga (and 
remember to increase your stack before using shar), but I wonder if the 
time spent compressing the file for transmission is sort of a waste of 
time.
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