Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!mit-eddie!jbs
From: jbs@eddie.MIT.EDU (Jeff Siegal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Kermit 2.30 part 4 / 4
Message-ID: <8018@eddie.MIT.EDU>
Date: 31 Jan 88 03:17:27 GMT
References: <5004@bellcore.bellcore.com> <3243@psuvax1.psu.edu> <1339@looking.UUCP>
Reply-To: jbs@eddie.MIT.EDU (Jeff Siegal)
Organization: MIT, EE/CS Computer Facilities, Cambridge, MA
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In article <1339@looking.UUCP> brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes:
>In article <3243@psuvax1.psu.edu> wcf@psuhcx (Bill Fenner) writes:
>>[...]ARC THE FILES BEFORE YOU UUENCODE! 
>EVERYBODY - don't listen to this.

The cost factors are small.  Both compression programs are pretty
good.  Many sites don't use compress on their news batches because it
adds to the system load, even though it reduces phone time.  In this
case, arc'ed files do save money.

There is another factor that I think is more important.  If you arc
the files first, you can use the arc t option to get some assurance
that things were not munged along the way.

Jeff