BL> And this "compress" they use! It's about HALF as effective as pkzip
BL> and twice as slow! ROFL! Whatta pakka wankers. How on earth can you

It was also around for years/decades before zip.  It's easier to be wiser years on.

BL> code a compress that's half as fast and half as effective at the same
BL> time? That 90K drosebay.z of yours is 60K after compress and 30K after
BL> pkzip! I wonder why they bother compressing at all... the modem can do
BL> better than that on the fly.

Interesting!  Anyway, hopefully I'll be using zip before too long.  BFN.  Paul.
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