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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
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- Subject: Re: C-news unofficial patch: freeze news batches
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.213731.22579@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 21:37:31 GMT
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- In article <C1I4Mu.Hn7@zoo.toronto.edu>, henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
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- | The new GNU "gzip" program is supposed to do considerably better. (It may
- | also be faster; "freeze" is really slow, which may matter if CPU cycles
- | are a significant issue.) I'm debating how to handle this in C News; I
- | really, really do not want to have to maintain an ever-growing list of
- | magic numbers inside newsspool.
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- Might I offer the suggestion that there be a nice ASCII table of sites
- and compression programs, and on the incoming side a similar table?
- These could be either read at startup, or preferably compiled to binary
- with a little parsing program, and then saved in a binary (system
- independent) form.
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
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