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From: hardin@hpindda.HP.COM (John Hardin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Re: Kermit 2.30 part 4 / 4 (To ARC or not to ARC)
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Date: 3 Feb 88 20:23:47 GMT
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>If, however, the ARCs contain text files, the efficiency loss is
>just plain enormous (on the order of 75 - 100 percent larger transmitted
>files).  Do NOT post ARCs which are made up of text files.  Ever.
>The standard news compression does a MUCH better job on text than
>ARC/uuencode can ever hope to.  Really.

What do you suggest for posting groups of small text files to be
submitted together (e.g., source modules).  Surely you are not
suggesting posting each separately?!

John Hardin