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From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Problems with Compress
Message-ID: <2399@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 28-Sep-87 13:41:11 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.2399
Posted: Mon Sep 28 13:41:11 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 29-Sep-87 06:31:56 EDT
References: <8709271656.AA01246@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <8709271656.AA01246@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
> >In article <780@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
> >! Will people who compress stuff for distribution PLEASE use 12-bit. 16-bit
> >! uses a huge amount of memory and may not even be available on small machines
> >! like PDP-11s and Intels.
> 
> 	However, 16 bit compress is a defacto standard for the ArpaNet
> anyway and usually all that's available on major nodes unless you want to
> go off and recompile it.  Anybody intending a personal computer distribution,
> though, should use the 12 bit compress.  (But hell, forget compress... if
> doing a personal computer distribution use ARC or something).

Compress has a -b switch that allows you to specify 12 or some other random
number of bits.  I've had this pain before, having to uucp files back and
forth between machines just to uncompress them...

-- 
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