Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!decwrl!hookup!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!uknet!demon!steffi.demon.co.uk!steffi.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson) Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,alt.cd-rom Subject: Re: Wanted: SCSI2 spec online? Date: 12 Mar 1994 10:47:16 -0000 Organization: me organised, that's a joke. Lines: 34 Message-ID: <2ls6jk$25a@steffi.demon.co.uk> References: <2lk86r$28k@steffi.demon.co.uk> <2ll6l1$18k@steffi.demon.co.uk> <2lrmv6$kjb@panix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: steffi.demon.co.uk Xref: cdrom.com comp.periphs.scsi:2247 alt.cd-rom:1612 fishman@panix.com (Harvey Fishman) wrote in comp.periphs.scsi,alt.cd-rom >In <2ll6l1$18k@steffi.demon.co.uk> robert@steffi.demon.co.uk (Robert Nicholson) says > >> BTW: Is there any chance that a 1.7MEG ascii file can be gziped? Sure >> would save a lot of people time and money. > >Many implmentations of ftp will do a Unix compress on a file before >sending it if you append .Z (case sensitive) to the file name when you >request the file. I do not know if the one that NCR uses does this, but >it sure don't hurt to try. By the way, the previous version that they had >up there (10k) was compressed. > >Harvey > >-- >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Harvey Fishman | There is no greater failure than >fishman@panix.com | that of making an enemy. > 718-258-7276 | > > > Oh BTW: That's the first thing I tried when I saw the file in it's uncompressed state. I'm an experienced ncftp user. Most ftpd's that do this specifically state that's it available in motd when you log in. -- "You know what's wrong with you?" (Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant) "No, what?" "Nothing" (Charade, 1963) (ASCII for text only messages)