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  2. From: fairbank@access.digex.net (Eric Fairbank)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
  4. Subject: Re: v34 speed on txt files???
  5. Date: Sat, 09 Mar 1996 23:36:33 GMT
  6. Organization: Express Access Online Communications, USA
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  8. References: <4hqq0e$eqn@sam.inforamp.net> <4hr16a$bci@nntp1.best.com>
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  13. Rigor@clever.net (Matt Fox) wrote:
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  15. >4:1 compression with v.42bis is just propaganda.. its never that high
  16. >with real world data.. expect 3:1 at the most, and possibly somewhere
  17. >between 2-3:1 in the real world
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  19.   It's not propaganda, it's a fact. It's just that you will only ever
  20. achieve 4:1 on certain spreadsheat and database files. 2-3:1 is right
  21. on.
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  24.                                                            ,,,
  25. Don't take life too seriously, you won't get out alive.   (o o)
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  27. fairbank@access.digex.net  http://www.access.digex.net/~fairbank/
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