Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Kermit 2.30 part 4 / 4
Message-ID: <1339@looking.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jan 88 20:08:54 GMT
References: <5004@bellcore.bellcore.com> <3243@psuvax1.psu.edu>
Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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In article <3243@psuvax1.psu.edu> wcf@psuhcx (Bill Fenner) writes:
>*flame on*
>
>EVERYBODY- Unless it's going to make the file bigger (only when the file is
>about 5 bytes long), ARC THE FILES BEFORE YOU UUENCODE!  You'll save the
>net a LOT of money!  If you post .EXE or .COM files, you're contributing
>to the downfall of comp.binaries.ibm.pc!
>
>*flame off*

EVERYBODY - don't listen to this.  Every major long distance link that is
cost conscious uses lempel-ziv compression on transmitted files.   If
Arc+LZ gives better than LZ, it's marginal.  Sometimes it is worse.

Doing ARC first does save disk space, I will say that for it, but it
doesn't do much for transmission time.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473