Re: Compression for the archives ( was: Drive drive)

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From: Bill Kooiman
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:07

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In article <1993Jan27.170859.11489@steggie.mtview.ca.us> steggie!eric  
(Eric Fronberg) writes:
> I've been watching from afar the discussions of Disk space vs a  new
> compression technique used on the NeXT archives and wanted add some
> input of how to deal with additional compression on the archives.  
> 
> The source of FTP is generally available.   Why not modify FTP do all
> the compressing/uncompressing on the users behalf.  Any worthwhile
> compression scheme could be used (zip, gzip, perhaps even a command
> line version of squash, if it exists) ...
> 

Wouldn't this lead to increased the traffic on the net?  Because you would  
be sending uncompressed versions around.  This would be especially  
difficult for people running via modems.

--Bill

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