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From: bill@sigma.UUCP (William Swan)
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Subject: Posting compressed documentation (Re: LQ)
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Date: Wed, 6-Aug-86 12:21:57 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug  6 12:21:57 1986
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Summary: compressed text < compressed uuencoded squeezed text

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Seen in net.sources:
>The posting of LQ a couple of days ago did not include th
>documentation.  The uuencoded file lq.dqc is included 
>below.  Use uudecode, move to your PC, then use USQ to
>create lq.doc.
>--------------------- cut here ------------------------------
>begin 644 lq.dqc
>M=O^K&VQQ+F1O8P!]  (  0 $  , !@ % -__!P )  @ "P *  T #  /  X 
>[...more uuencoded stuff...]
>ED:4S(]_24H!X^2^=>4Y+L0Z,B+/$=YJNU](265HB2TMDJ3U3"-*9
> 
>end

Question for you experts: Did this poster actually achieve any savings? It
seems to me that the resultant material, as transmitted (compressed) between
sites, is longer than if he had posted straight text. Some numbers:

                  original text:   (squeezed text)   uuencoded squeezed text:
text characters:      96674           (47602)            65611
compressed bytes:     32533                              55205

If the text were transmitted as text characters, then he has certainly
achieved his (apparent) goal of reducing transmission time, BUT if "compress"
is used, then there is a significant increase (approximately 3 minutes at
1200 bps, if my calculator batteries have held out..) caused by this
extra effort.