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From: allisonp@world.std.com (Allison J Parent)
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Subject: Re: gzip on PDP-11: not so simple
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<Well, I've got uncompress working, but I thought having gunzip would
<be good as it gives better compression results.

The question is why?  Generally compression is a diminishing returns for
computational effort with 80% for the first 10% effort.  I can see having 
it if needed to gain access to software and the current platform is the 
only one. 

For sim to hardware transfers simple works better... 

Allison