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- From: 90taobri@wave.scar (Brian Tao)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: .QWK readers
- Message-ID: <9301121633.AA04147@wave.scar.utoronto.ca>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 16:33:28 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
- Organization: MuGS Research and Development Facility
- Lines: 17
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- The following revelation escaped Scott Alfter's lips:
- >
- > Given information on an archive format, it should be easy to create an
- > "archive" that contains uncompressed elements. *.REP files are
- > usually small enough that lack of compression won't significantly
- > increase upload time, especially with V.42bis modems (which do their
- > own compression).
-
- Not everyone has v.42bis or high-speed modems, but if indeed the QWK
- specs don't require that the reply packets be compressed, it would remove a
- very large obstacle.
-
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