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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: SQUASHED!
Message-ID: <2881@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 13-Jul-87 21:03:15 EDT
Article-I.D.: ncoast.2881
Posted: Mon Jul 13 21:03:15 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 15-Jul-87 04:21:20 EDT
References: <642@cgh.UUCP> <10710@clyde.ATT.COM> <1069@cognos.UUCP>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh
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As quoted from <1069@cognos.UUCP> by brianc@cognos.uucp ( Brian Campbell ):
+---------------
| Some boards have adopted a 'PKA' extension to make it crystal clear that
| PKXARC is needed to extract the files in a particular archive (though this is
| really only necessary if PKARC squashes one or more of the files). What more
| could anyone want?
+---------------
If someone will post the source (or algorithm, even) for squashing, I am
willing to add it to the System V arc. I will also start converting the
uuencodes to extract to *.PKA to indicate PKARC.
Further than this... Space savings applies not only to BBS (and ncoast) disk
space, but also to download time... and, more importantly, net transfer costs,
especially if the FCC has its wonderful way. Ncoast got the experience of
being a (local) backbone for a weekend; I now have a healthy respect for the
backbone sites and what phone bills they must pay. If I'm going to throw
huge binaries at them, I should at least have the consideration to make them
as small as possible; for a single binary it's not much, but for Hack parts
1-8, or for the entire list of submissions, it adds up.
In this age of cursing the backbone, people ought remember what will happen
to the Usenet if they can or will no longer operate. (With which I retire
this particular discussion to news.admin.)
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