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From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Source/Binary Groups Encoding (+ suggestion)
Message-ID: <9804@g.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 30 Jun 88 03:40:50 GMT
References: <8806211453.AA20562@decwrl.dec.com> <719@inria.UUCP>
Reply-To: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey)
Organization: The Leaning Tower of Patterson Office @ The Univ. of KY
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In article <719@inria.UUCP> rouaix@inria.UUCP (Francois Rouaix) writes:
>IMHO, excellent is not really appropriate...
>Let's examine the Master_weave posting:
>among the files were a picture and some pattern files.
>ARC was able to compress the pattern files over 90%. This means that an
>arc file containing all pattern files and uuencoded would have been less
>6k large (just try it!), compared to the 100k+ of the 3 uuencode-shar 
>postings.

This would only affect the disk space requirements, as most news sites
send news through batches compressed with compress(1). This gets about
the same compression as ARC.

As far as disk space goes, compressing these would have been a good idea,
saving disk space in the archives and in the spool directory.

I'd DEFINITELY like to see ARC phased out and zoo phased in. Zoo has a
lot less problems than arc (like not crashing your machine on a bad
archive), and a lot of advantages.

Sean
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