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From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: need help with xenix Kermit to PC procomm
Message-ID: <11996@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 26 Aug 88 19:48:45 GMT
References: <20302@neabbs.UUCP> <11744@oberon.USC.EDU> <6729@bigtex.uucp> <2906@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> <2315@munnari.oz>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <2315@munnari.oz> kre@munnari.oz (Robert Elz) writes:

| If you really want effeciency, the news "encode" and "decode" programs
| give close to optimal ascii encoding (more or less base 90, about 23%
| expansion .. that is, they put 13 bits of data in 16 bits transmitted),
| provided that you don't need newlines, etc, which kermit doesn't.

  I'm not sure what you're suggesting here. Why would I want to put a
binary file into ASCII when I can move it in binary with kermit? And why
not use atob which comes with the compress program (in most archives)?
It produces output files about 10% smaller than uuencode.
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	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me