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Re: .QWK readers
- Subject: Re: .QWK readers
- From: sknkwrks@sonny-boy.cs.unlv.edu (Scott Alfter)
- Date: 06 Jan 93 06:46:44 GMT
- In-reply-to: 90taobri@CHASM.SCAR.UTORONTO.CA's message of 3 Jan 93 01:43:58 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Skunk Works Software Co.
- References: <9301030143.AA20732@chasm.scar.utoronto.ca>
- Sender: news@unlv.edu (News User)
In article <9301030143.AA20732@chasm.scar.utoronto.ca> 90taobri@CHASM.SCAR.UTORONTO.CA (Brian Tao) writes:
>But don't BBS also expect the reply packet to be compressed as well?
>Unpacking foreign archives isn't much of a problem (especially on the GS),
>but as far as I know, we don't have a reliable (or quick) utility for
>making ZIP, LHA, ARJ, etc. archives.
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).
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