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- From: Rigor@clever.net (Matt Fox)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: v34 speed on txt files???
- Date: 10 Mar 1996 06:56:50 GMT
- Organization: Best Internet Communications
- Message-ID: <4htufi$9e9@nntp1.best.com>
- References: <4hqq0e$eqn@sam.inforamp.net> <4hr16a$bci@nntp1.best.com> <4ht4lg$71h@news3.digex.net> <4htkvk$86u@sam.inforamp.net>
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- In article <4htkvk$86u@sam.inforamp.net>, crs0794@inforamp.net says...
- >
- >In article <4ht4lg$71h@news3.digex.net>,
- > fairbank@access.digex.net (Eric Fairbank) wrote:
- >>Rigor@clever.net (Matt Fox) wrote:
- >>
- >>>4:1 compression with v.42bis is just propaganda.. its never that high
- >>>with real world data.. expect 3:1 at the most, and possibly somewhere
- >>>between 2-3:1 in the real world
- >>
- >> It's not propaganda, it's a fact. It's just that you will only ever
- >>achieve 4:1 on certain spreadsheat and database files. 2-3:1 is right
- >>on.
- >
- >Please be careful when stating this.
- >
- >4:1 my be typical for certain file types, but it is _not_ a hard and fast
- >limit for V.42bis compression. In particular, certain text files and many
- >DBF files (which are mostly spaces) can compress much better. Then again,
- >wherever possible, it's always better to compress (i.e. ZIP) files _before_
- >transmission.
- >
-
- ive never seen it go that high. and zipping/arj those file types would
- beat v.42bis's but anyway
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-