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- From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: Compression for the archives ( was: Drive drive)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.203720.2007@macc.wisc.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 20:37:20 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan27.170859.11489@steggie.mtview.ca.us>
- eric@steggie.mtview.ca.us writes:
-
- >The source of FTP is generally available. Why not modify FTP do all
- >the compressing/uncompressing on the users behalf. Any worthwhile
- >compression scheme could be used (zip, gzip, perhaps even a command
- >line version of squash, if it exists)
-
- Yet Another Standard (YAS)? But your point is rendered
- moot, I think, by the next factoid:
-
- >A person submitting a file would just ftp it to an archive sight and
- >ftp would pipe the file through some compression algorithm and onto
- >the disk. Likewise when one extracts a file from the archive the
- >file is decompressed (if it was compressed in the first place) and
- >given to the user.
-
- One of the advantages of compression is that it saves
- connect time, which is something many people have to pay for
- in hard currency. In many cases it also saves bandwidth.
- For small files, these savings are not very significant,
- probably, but for big transfers (large files or whole
- directories) the savings can be pretty impressive.
-
- >This way the people submitting and the people retrieving data need
- >never concern themselves with how the data is stored just that it's
- >accessible.
-
- You've forgotten the Golden Rule: those with the gold make
- the rules. :-)
-
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