haugj@pigs.UUCP (John F. Haugh II) (09/22/88)
In article <2054@looking.UUCP> brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes: >The fact is that for the net compression is not desirable. It clouds the >issue, sometimes *increases* transmission time, and just makes postings >harder to deal with. this is sometimes true. lzw compressed archives get bigger when lzw'd again. huffman, splay tree, and others MAY grow, maybe not. ARC format archives don't seem to grow, possibly because they only use 12 bit encoding. >For private archives, use ARC, PKPAK, ZOO whatever you like. For archives >to give to people, let's be simple, non-compressed and already supported. two out of three aren't bad. be simple, already supported, and compressed with a commonly usable compression ratio. for public access MS-DOS archives, 12 bit compression is tops. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-The Beach Bum at The Big "D" Home for Wayward Hackers-=-=-=-=-=-= Very Long Address: John.F.Haugh@rpp386.dallas.tx.us Very Short Address: jfh@rpp386 "ANSI C: Just say no" -- Me