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- From: urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs)
- Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs,news.software.b
- Subject: Re: C-news unofficial patch: freeze news batches
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 00:57:47 +0100
- Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG
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- Message-ID: <1k77hr$a69@smurf.sub.org>
- References: <fYnlXJc@quack.sac.ca.us> <C1I4Mu.Hn7@zoo.toronto.edu>
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- In news.software.b, article <C1I4Mu.Hn7@zoo.toronto.edu>,
- henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
- > In article <fYnlXJc@quack.sac.ca.us> mrapple@quack.sac.ca.us (Nick Sayer) writes:
- > >According to my recent testing, the recently posted 'freeze' program
- > >yields a gain of 5-10% in compression on batches of USENET news over
- > >plain old compress...
- >
- > 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.
-
- Either use the m! XYZZY header as a handy excuse to call programm XYZZY
- (if present in a special directory, for security reasons) with the rest
- of the file on its stdin, or tell your feed to send gzipped data to
- zrnews, compressed data to crnews, frozen data to frnews.
-
- I'm more a friend of the second method; IMHO, it's the most direct way
- the sender (who already knows the packing method) can tell the receiver
- what to expect. No need for the receiver to go through contortions trying
- to find that out.
-
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