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From: jr@forcm5.UUCP (John Rogers)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Wanted: news batching with compression
Message-ID: <149@forcm5.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 25-Mar-84 02:27:01 EST
Article-I.D.: forcm5.149
Posted: Sun Mar 25 02:27:01 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 21-Mar-84 01:04:34 EST
Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA
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Hi.  I'm looking for some news batching software that does text compression.
I already have some stuff that combines lots of little articles into big
files (to reduce the UUCP per-file overhead), with a daemon that allows rnews
to run without uuxqt (to free up the communications line while receiving the
articles).  This was all put together by fortune!stein (Mark Stein) (thanks
Mark!).  But I'm wondering if we can get even more efficient...

Someone suggested using pack and unpack, which are from System III.
Unfortunately, the site that needs it most (the poorest site that calls me)
doesn't have a System III license.  Another possibility might be SQ and USQ
(from the CP/M world), but I've heard that they're pretty slow, and I'd
rather not spend a lot of time integrating them into netnews.

So, does anybody have any suggestions (or, better yet, source code)?

				Thanks in advance!
				JR (John Rogers)
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				JR (John Rogers)
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