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From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Standard for file transmission
Message-ID: <10712@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 4 May 88 13:13:17 GMT
References: <292@cullsj.UUCP> <696@fig.bbn.com> <18621@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: davidsen@kbsvax.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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  I would like to add a little fuel to the fires of "which archiver"
discussion.  Use of the 'btoa' routine instead of uuencode would save
12% (!) on binary postings. This is a PD program, included in the
compress package, and runs just fine on a PC.

  All the discussion of using PKARC to save 1-2% or not using it to save
time for many of the people on the net seems pointless. We should use
both (standard) arc and zoo formats, uuencode them, and save bandwidth
by dropping this discussion. Hopefully Rahul will clarify this by edict.
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me