Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!rutgers!iuvax!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uiucdcsb!mcnabb From: mcnabb@uiucdcsb.cs.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: binaries postings Message-ID: <164500071@uiucdcsb> Date: 8 Dec 87 16:24:00 GMT References: <1254@runx.ips.oz> Lines: 23 Nf-ID: #R:runx.ips.oz:1254:uiucdcsb:164500071:000:960 Nf-From: uiucdcsb.cs.uiuc.edu!mcnabb Dec 8 10:24:00 1987 >>> Why is everything posted to comp.binaries.mac uncompressed? >>> ... using StuffIt to compress everything would enable more >>> stuff to be posted without increasing the share of the bandwidth. >> ... use StuffIt before you binhex it, making the resulting hqx file >> significantly smaller. ... stuffing before posting saves not only >> during USENET transfers but during downloads, ... > orig file .hqx .hqx.Z > Orig packit posting 154194 203165 92921 > Stuffit of posting 66066 90012 81801 > > the .hqx of the stuffit version is shorter than the compressed .hqx > of the original! [technote #176, 4 files put together with packit] I'm convinced that StuffIt is the way to go, but my copy crashes when I try to run it on or with RamDisk+ v1.2 (Mac+, F/5.3, S/3.2, cache off). Anyone else have this problem? David McNabb USENET: ...!{cmcl2,seismo,ihnp4}!uiucdcs!mcnabb ARPA: mcnabb@a.cs.uiuc.edu