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Article #712Re: C-news unofficial patch: freeze news batches
From: Henry Spencer
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 07:25
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 07:25
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In article <fYnlXJc@quack.sac.ca.us> mrapple@quack.sac.ca.us (Nick Sayer) writes:
>According to my recent testing, the recently posted 'freeze' program
>yields a gain of 5-10% in compression on batches of USENET news over
>plain old compress...
The new GNU "gzip" program is supposed to do considerably better. (It may
also be faster; "freeze" is really slow, which may matter if CPU cycles
are a significant issue.) I'm debating how to handle this in C News; I
really, really do not want to have to maintain an ever-growing list of
magic numbers inside newsspool.
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"God willing... we shall return." | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
-Gene Cernan, the Moon, Dec 1972 | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mailgate.mobil.com!dlpcbc!awful!lerami!kf5iw!wb9rxw!texsun!cronkite.Central.Sun.COM!news2me.EBay.Sun.COM!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!torn!utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs,news.software.b Subject: Re: C-news unofficial patch: freeze news batches Message-ID: <C1I4Mu.Hn7@zoo.toronto.edu> Date: 27 Jan 93 07:25:41 GMT References: <fYnlXJc@quack.sac.ca.us> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 13