Unnecessary tar-compress-uuencodes

[Peter da Silva]

In article <sean.647630062 at s.ms.uky.edu> sean at ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes:
> doug at letni.UUCP (Doug Davis) writes:
> Compressing an article reduces phone time. If compress finds a file
> is bigger after compression, it doesn't compress it. So the phone
> costs really aren't increased by users doing their own compression.

Sure, because it's compressed *and then uuencoded*. Compressed uuencoded
files are (a) likely bigger than the original, and (b) don't compress
very well.

> I don't see what the problem is. Compress is smart enough to not
> expand files, and it *does* save disk space on the remote site, so
> why complain?

And it doesn't save disk space on the remote site either, because of the
uuencoding.
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