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- From: Andreas Muck <andreas.muck@stud.uni-karlsruhe.de>
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- Subject: Re: v34 speed on txt files???
- Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 23:54:14 +0100
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- Jeremiah Kristal wrote:
- > My test file is a 2Meg bmp that I made. Just one big white box on a
- > white background.
-
- If you want a really redundant file to test your port speed do this on
- any(?) UNIX system:
-
- dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=1024 count=5120
-
- It gives you a 5 megs big file full of zero's :) gzip reports 99.9%
- compression, the zipped file is only 5124 bytes. :))
-
- Andi
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