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From: sewilco@meccts.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Proposal: compressing news in the spool directories
Message-ID: <2592@meccts.MECC.COM>
Date: Sat, 18-Apr-87 19:27:13 EST
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Posted: Sat Apr 18 19:27:13 1987
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Reply-To: sewilco@meccts.UUCP (Scot E. Wilcoxon)
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Most posters are assuming that "compression" requires the `compress`
program or algorithm.  It should not be implied (except by someone who
has implemented the idea using the L-Z algorithm :-).
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Scot E. Wilcoxon   (guest account)  {ihnp4,amdahl,dayton}!meccts!sewilco
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	It may be the event of the century, but
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