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From: rock@rancho.uucp (Rock Kent)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: poor uucp performance - help! (LONG)
Message-ID: <1990Feb28.071051.16981@rancho.uucp>
Date: 28 Feb 90 07:10:51 GMT
References: <125@cdss.UUCP> <1990Feb17.063412.18455@rancho.uucp> <959@codonics.COM> <21377@ditka.UUCP> <960@codonics.COM>
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In-Reply-To: bret@codonics.COM's message of 24 Feb 90 08:37:30 GMT

On 24 Feb 90 08:37:30 GMT, bret@codonics.COM (Bret Orsburn) said:
>In article <21377@ditka.UUCP> kls@ditka.UUCP (Karl Swartz) writes:
>>In article <959@codonics.COM> bret@codonics.COM (Bret Orsburn) writes:
>>>In article <1990Feb17.063412.18455@rancho.uucp> rock@rancho.uucp (Rock Kent) writes:
>>>>4.  Make sure that you have compression turned off.  You don't want to
>>>Surely, compression will be less effective the second time, but is there
>>>any good reason to disable it?
>>Compressing random binary data will often make a file larger since
>Makes sense to me.
>
>(I thank you, my phone bill thanks you, the man who pays my phone bill thanks
> you,....)

And I thank you.  'Bout jumped out of my chair when Bret challenged my
relaying of conventional wisdom.  Made me think.  You all explained it
far better than I would have.

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*Rock Kent    rock@rancho.uucp        POB 8964, Rancho Sante Fe, CA. 92067*
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