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From: karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste)
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Subject: Re: Standard for file transmission
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Date: 4 May 88 12:36:00 GMT
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     1) COMPRESS is a text only compression routine.  It will not now, or ever,
        help in the compression of binary files.

Nonsense.

[58] [8:33am] tut:/dino0/karl/bin/pyr/private> list enable
34831 -rwsr-x---  2 root     staff        8192 Apr 13 09:54 enable
[59] [8:33am] tut:/dino0/karl/bin/pyr/private> file enable
enable: 90x family demand paged pure executable
[60] [8:33am] tut:/dino0/karl/bin/pyr/private> compress -v < enable > enable.Z
Compression: 72.44%
[61] [8:33am] tut:/dino0/karl/bin/pyr/private> list enable.Z
35427 -rw-r--r--  1 karl     staff        2257 May  4 08:34 enable.Z
[62] [8:33am] tut:/dino0/karl/bin/pyr/private> 

--Karl