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In article <815730474.27534@nyarrow.demon.co.uk>,
nick@nyarrow.demon.co.uk (D.N. Yarrow) wrote:

>With the server at Imperial College,and when doing an anonymous
>log-in, if you log in with a plus sign '+' in front of your password
>(i.e. you put a plus in front of your net address for example
>+peter@cara.demon.co.uk) you do not get the .gz extension and the
>files come over as straight .hqx or whatever you set your translation
>to.

You're right. But in the interests of Net Goodness I reckon it's best to
encourage people to get MacGzip, which is dead quick and terrific, and
encourage them to download the gz files. Hqx may be compressible, but they
are big things and GZip, which can sit there and think and draw up symbol
tables, compresses better than v.42bis ever could on the fly.

In practice I reckon downloads are quicker zipped. 

Peter