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From: brianc@cognos.uucp (Brian Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Standard for file transmission
Message-ID: <2932@cognos.UUCP>
Date: 5 May 88 21:28:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: cognos.2932
Posted: Thu May  5 17:28:30 1988
References: <292@cullsj.UUCP> <696@fig.bbn.com>
Reply-To: brianc@cognos.UUCP (Brian Campbell)
Organization: Cognos Incorporated, Ottawa, Canada
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In article <696@fig.bbn.com> rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) writes:
> If you are (sigh) going to post binaries on Usenet, DO NOT compress
> them first.  Many Usenet sites use compress to pack up their news
> batches.  Compressing a compressed file makes it larger.

Maybe those Usenet sites should not use the -f (force) flag with
compress.  Every version I've used (Sun, XENIX and DOS) will not
replace the original if the compressed version would be larger.  Try
compressing a file twice using the -v (verbose) option and see what
happens.
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