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From: bc@cyb-eng.UUCP (Bill Crews)
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Subject: Re: Posting compressed documentation (Re: LQ)
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Date: Fri, 8-Aug-86 09:52:29 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  8 09:52:29 1986
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> >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

As you very effectively demonstrated, the poster did not achieve the savings
that compress alone would provide.  And just as importantly, for me anyway,
is that his method assumes the receiver has a compatible usq program.  DO
PEOPLE REALIZE HOW MANY *DIFFERENT* VERSIONS OF USQ THERE ARE OUT THERE???
A number of *different* people call their programs sq/usq, and they work
differently.  Usenet news software, including compress/decompress, are
maintainedmuch more consistently than the sq/usq's at everyone's individual
PCs out there.  Let's post straight text, OK?

Question:  How many versions of uuencode/uudecode are there?  ARC seems not
to have very many, but I would still recommend using uuencode/uudecode if
that code is maintained fairly consistently by most of the system
administrators on the net.
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bc				Bill Crews @ NetCor Data International

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