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From: fnf@mcdsun.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Jtime.arc Posting [1 of 2]
Message-ID: <285@mcdsun.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 8-Apr-87 10:55:02 EST
Article-I.D.: mcdsun.285
Posted: Wed Apr  8 10:55:02 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 13-Apr-87 04:05:44 EST
References: <10423@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> <520@madvax.UUCP> <479@oscvax.UUCP> <1957@hoptoad.uucp>
Reply-To: fnf@mcdsun.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Organization: Motorola Microcomputer Division
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In article <1957@hoptoad.uucp> farren@hoptoad.UUCP (Mike Farren) writes:
>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".

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.

I regularly use compressed bru archives (tar would also work if available
on the Amiga) to transmit stuff back and forth and usually achieve about
60-80% compression.

-Fred
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