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- From: Randy_Schnedler@fcircus.sat.tx.us (Randy Schnedler)
- Subject: Re: XPK 2.4 & XFH 1.12
- References: <1992Nov9.150411.8348@mlb.semi.harris.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,alt.sys.amiga.uucp
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- X-NewsSoftware: BBX-UMB 0.26b beta (Nov 07 1992)
- Message-ID: <Randy_Schnedler.0jc5@fcircus.sat.tx.us>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 23:07:36 CST
- Organization: The Flying Circus Amiga BBX, San Antonio, Texas
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- In <1992Nov9.150411.8348@mlb.semi.harris.com>, mwills@su102c.ess.harris.com (Scott Wills) writes:
- > I decided to try XPK/XFH (external compressor
- > protocol/auto-compressing file system handler) to compress my usenet
- > news articles subdirectory (UUNews:) for AmigaUUCP 1.16D and ran into
- > a problem that others may be interested in:
-
- I _just_ did this today so I'm very interested! ;-)
-
- >
- > The articles auto-compress/uncompress fine, but the ".next" file which
- > keeps track of the "next" article number (and file name) was not
- > updated properly. So every new article was written to the same file,
- > overwriting the previous one. I remembered reading that not all 2.04
- > file system requests (packets) are implemented by XFH 1.12, including
- > "open for appending". So I tried manually uncompressing all the
- > ".next" files (one per newsgroup) with hopes that XFH would leave it
- > alone. It worked! Now things appear to be working fine.
-
- Why does XFH leave it alone? The next time it's written, it
- will be compressed, won't it?
-
- > I get about
- > 30% to 50% compression on most articles using the default (NUKE)
- > compression mode.
-
- I'm using NUKE also--it seems to make the most sense for any XFH
- use.
-
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- > Anyone know of other gotchas waiting to bite me on this one?
-
- I may in a few days.... ;-)
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