Re: C-news unofficial patch: freeze news batches

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From: william E Davidsen
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:37

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In article <C1I4Mu.Hn7@zoo.toronto.edu>, henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:

| 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.

  Might I offer the suggestion that there be a nice ASCII table of sites
and compression programs, and on the incoming side a similar table?
These could be either read at startup, or preferably compiled to binary
with a little parsing program, and then saved in a binary (system
independent) form.
-- 
bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
	A terible poker player can have a great hand,
	A obnoxious fool can have a good idea.
	Both are winners, regardless of who has them.

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Subject: Re: C-news unofficial patch: freeze news batches
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