BL>> I wonder why they bother compressing at all... the modem can do
BL>> better than that on the fly.

PE>> Interesting! Anyway, hopefully I'll be using zip before too
PE>> long. 

BL> Aarrgh! The problem at this end is the dopey "#! cunbatch" header.
BL> I've got a hacked compress that handles it, and this is where it ought
BL> to be done... while you'e got the file open decompressing. If you use
BL> ZIP and add the header, I'll have to open every file and copy the
BL> whole thing through, every bloody packet, before I can UNZIP. It's
BL> almost the equivalent of doing it twice.

Yeah, well, I didn't say I was going to rush into it or anything. BFN.  Paul.
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