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From: james@bigtex.uucp (James Van Artsdalen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: gdb on 3b1 up and running
Keywords: diffs comming soon
Message-ID: <5821@bigtex.uucp>
Date: 11 Aug 88 02:49:29 GMT
References: <833@naucse.UUCP>
Reply-To: james@bigtex.UUCP (James Van Artsdalen)
Organization: F.B.N. Software, Austin TX
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In article <833@naucse.UUCP>, rrr@naucse.UUCP (Bob Rose ) wrote:
> How many of you what the diff's, any objections to posting them
> compressed and uuencoded (it saves about 25%)??

Yes, I object to compressing & uuencoding!  It doesn't save any space
where it counts: it takes *more* space.  News transfer between
machines is almost universally compressed (big exception is nntp).  If
you compress & uuencode something you post, particularly if it is
text, you'll take up about 25% or more space (try it out - compress
is better than compress|uuencode|compress).
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