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I can understand why it does this.  Some years ago, the
MNP compression used in modems compressed every file,
ZIP, SHK, GIF, TXT, etc.  A funny thing happened.  When
transfering a ZIP file, for example, the transfer took LONGER
with compression ON than OFf.  The file size GREW because
of compression.

That's why every compression scheme after MNP-5 does
not compress once a compress file of ANY type is
compressed.

It is true that IF the modems COULD determine if the file
were SHK, then the compression WOULD still help.  But
current modems CAN'T do this so NO compression is used.

Thus, a IIGS is PERFECTLY capable of FULLY (in the
sense that it was designed in relation to the transfer of
compressed ZIP, etc. files) using a 33.6k modem since
that modem WON'T compressed ANY type of compressed
files.