Beyond shar (Re: shars and security concerns.)

[Peter Kendell]

In <18123 at well.sf.ca.us> jef at well.sf.ca.us (Jef Poskanzer) writes:

>In the referenced message, tneff at bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) wrote:
>}                       UCT transmission savings are illusory since most
>}newsfeeds are compressed anyway.

Absolutely.

>The reason I don't like compressed tar files is that you have to have
>all parts before you can begin to unpack and peruse.

The reason *I* don't like compressed tar files is that not all 
machines (Curse Intel for ever!) can handle 16-bit compression.

Leave compression to the newsfeed. My upstream site *knows* to 
use 12 bits.
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