Compaction Algorithm (pack vs compress)

[Randy Suess]

In article <226 at uvacs.UUCP> rwl at uvacs.UUCP (Ray Lubinsky) writes:
>Hold on thar, Babaloo!  If you mean better in terms of *byte* savings, I
>imagine ``compress'' could easily do better than ``pack''.  

>Sqeezing a few extra bytes out of a file can only be worth it if it results in
>reducing by the 1K minimum data block size (2 basic file system blocks

	Ahhh!, but transfering a 50-60% compressed file long distance at
1200 baud makes me much happier than transfering one at 33% packed.
Every little bit helps.  

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