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   Errors-To: gnu-misc-discuss-request@cis.ohio-state.edu
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   Date: 7 May 91 02:50:26 GMT
   From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu  (Dan Bernstein)
   Organization: IR

   > Is yabba/unyabba going to
   > replace compress?

   There's no way to tell yet. Individual links can easily switch to a
   different compression method, but archive sites will stay with compress
   until a better standard is widespread. (Rather, perceived to be
   widespread.)

   One thing an archive site can do is make selected files available in
   both .Z and .Y form, and see how often the .Y version is retrieved. If
   in a few years most people take the smaller file, the site might try to
   drop .Z and see what happens.

All an archive site has to do to switch is to provide the source of
the new compressor/decompressor uncompressed.  Perhaps is a variety of
languages/implementations.   

-len