bill@sigma.UUCP (William Swan) (08/06/86)
[] Seen in net.sources: >The posting of LQ a couple of days ago did not include th >documentation. The uuencoded file lq.dqc is included >below. Use uudecode, move to your PC, then use USQ to >create lq.doc. >--------------------- cut here ------------------------------ >begin 644 lq.dqc >M=O^K&VQQ+F1O8P!] ( 0 $ , !@ % -__!P ) @ "P * T # / X >[...more uuencoded stuff...] >ED:4S(]_24H!X^2^=>4Y+L0Z,B+/$=YJNU](265HB2TMDJ3U3"-*9 > >end Question for you experts: Did this poster actually achieve any savings? It seems to me that the resultant material, as transmitted (compressed) between sites, is longer than if he had posted straight text. Some numbers: original text: (squeezed text) uuencoded squeezed text: text characters: 96674 (47602) 65611 compressed bytes: 32533 55205 If the text were transmitted as text characters, then he has certainly achieved his (apparent) goal of reducing transmission time, BUT if "compress" is used, then there is a significant increase (approximately 3 minutes at 1200 bps, if my calculator batteries have held out..) caused by this extra effort.
bc@cyb-eng.UUCP (Bill Crews) (08/08/86)
> >below. Use uudecode, move to your PC, then use USQ to > >create lq.doc. > >--------------------- cut here ------------------------------ > >begin 644 lq.dqc > >M=O^K&VQQ+F1O8P!] ( 0 $ , !@ % -__!P ) @ "P * T # / X > >[...more uuencoded stuff...] > >ED:4S(]_24H!X^2^=>4Y+L0Z,B+/$=YJNU](265HB2TMDJ3U3"-*9 > > > >end > > Question for you experts: Did this poster actually achieve any savings? It As you very effectively demonstrated, the poster did not achieve the savings that compress alone would provide. And just as importantly, for me anyway, is that his method assumes the receiver has a compatible usq program. DO PEOPLE REALIZE HOW MANY *DIFFERENT* VERSIONS OF USQ THERE ARE OUT THERE??? A number of *different* people call their programs sq/usq, and they work differently. Usenet news software, including compress/decompress, are maintainedmuch more consistently than the sq/usq's at everyone's individual PCs out there. Let's post straight text, OK? Question: How many versions of uuencode/uudecode are there? ARC seems not to have very many, but I would still recommend using uuencode/uudecode if that code is maintained fairly consistently by most of the system administrators on the net. -- bc Bill Crews @ NetCor Data International ..!{seismo,gatech,ihnp4}!ut-sally!cyb-eng!bc (512) 835-2937