Also, consider benchmarking results of total time for ftp versus compress -
ftp - decompress. You didn't say anything about the network between them.
But another factor is that you would be sending less data across your
network, which can be a good thing for other users or processes.

Greg Stigers
http://www.cgiusa.com

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