poor uucp performance - help! (LONG)

Larry Snyder larry at nstar.UUCP
Fri Feb 23 22:34:52 AEST 1990


In article <959 at codonics.COM>, bret at codonics.COM (Bret Orsburn) writes:
> 
> Surely, compression will be less effective the second time, but is there
> any good reason to disable it? Do you have any data to demonstrate that
> throughput is *decreased* by enabling compression for a compressed newsfeed?
> 

In many cases enabling compression in the modem will actually increase
the about of time to transfer the file - ie: with compressed and or
archived data.


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          Larry Snyder, Northern Star Communications, Notre Dame, IN USA 
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