Re: How to reconstitute Computist posts?

[Greg Buchner <apple22@mn.rr.com>]

In article <pan.2005.05.16.17.37.16.272119@emeraldcity.gov>,
 The Wizard of Oz <wizard@emeraldcity.gov> wrote:

> > An encoding scheme that does incorporate (simple) compression is binhex.  
> > Files can be made smaller under that format but it's fairly rare as it 
> > just uses a simple RLE compression method.
> 
> 	I forgot about this one. When I do the article I'll include the above
> paragraph (with your permission).

No problem...it's public information as far as I'm concerned.

> > I do a test, but the news reader I'm currently using will extract yEnc 
> > postings, but doesn't seem to post in yEnc.  And there's a few programs 
> > that will decode yEnc on the Mac OS X end, but I didn't find any that 
> > would encode and let me test.
> 
> 	Most readers only allow posting in plain text. To post very large files,
> I gather there are special posting programs. In some of the anime
> newsgroups, I have noticed a number of people with Macs. I didn't notice
> if they were posting text messages or binaries.

I suppose I should have been more clear.  I have posted binaries of 
stuff before, both uuencoded and yEnc, but that was with a different 
program than what I'm using now.  I can't find a way to switch 
MT-Newswatcher 3.4 binary posting method so I assume it just uses either 
uuencoding or Mime-64 as there's a button labeled 'Send with Mime'.  So 
the program I'm using just isn't giving me the options to show that yEnc 
currently doesn't seem to use any compression.  I could move to another 
computer where I have a different program that will post in yEnc, but I 
don't currently feel like going through the effort.  :-)

But, I just went to an alt.binaries group, downloaded a yEnc'ed text 
file, it's 13,169 bytes yEnc'ed, 12,907 when decoded.  There's obviously 
no compression going on because zipped it's 3,747 bytes.  That same file 
uuencoded is 17,858 and just to throw it into the mix, it's 11,224 bytes 
when binhexed, so obviously it compressed it somewhat.  (I did strip all 
of the internet headers out of the file when I downloaded it.)

So, we have:

Original Text: 12,907
yEnc: 13,169
uuEncode: 17,858
binhex: 11,224
Zipped: 3,747

Now, I hope I haven't muddied things up too much for people in my 
attempt to make things clearer.  :-)

Greg B.

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