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From: geoff@utstat.uucp (Geoff Collyer)
Subject: Re: Standard for file transmission
Message-ID: <1988May4.204207.4581@utstat.uucp>
Keywords: protocol compression source
Organization: Statistics, U. of Toronto
References: <292@cullsj.UUCP> <55@psuhcx.psu.edu> <537@csccat.UUCP>
 <296@cullsj.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4 May 88 20:42:07 GMT

In article <296@cullsj.UUCP> jeff@cullsj.UUCP (Jeffrey C. Fried) writes:
>  1) COMPRESS is a text only compression routine.  It will not now, or ever,
>     help in the compression of binary files.

This is absolutely dead wrong.  compress compresses any kind of file,
and has been used to compress (and correctly uncompress!), for example,
graphics bit maps, sendmail configuration files :-), and tar archives
containing binaries.
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Geoff Collyer	utzoo!utstat!geoff, utstat.toronto.{edu,cdn}!geoff