Hi Greg, Peter and all :)
    A side note... I sent Peter a private note plugging Minisoft's NFT method of
transfer for this situation since I use it to download "comma delimited" files
(20+meg worth at a shot)  for our Annual Report Honor Roll of Donors (yep! read
list of names ordered by all sorts of things hehehe)

  If you want to import into FoxPro ... the data probably will need to be
uncompressed at the PC level... so I think that TAR might not work ( but then I
haven't used tar!)

   The NFT program worked for amazingly fast downloads (and uploads for FoxPro
imports) ???

Art "FoxPro Programmer since 1989 Cobol since 1985! hehehe" Bahrs

>>> "Stigers, Greg ~ AND" <[log in to unmask]> 01/06/98 07:20am >>>
Since Your Mileage May Vary is a byword of what we do here, I would
encourage you to test PKZIP, gzip, LZW, and tar (did I leave any out?)
on both platforms, and see what kind of mileage you get. On a good day,
someone else here may have been there, done that, and be able to advise
you on their results.

Factors such as whether the data is all ASCII or whether it contains
binary data (which I would doubt, but don't know FoxPro...) should
affect your results. You probably would want to weigh time to compress,
compared with the effect on time of transmission. I am guessing that you
are using a network connection across ethernet or the like rather than a
modem connection, so the gain of a few degrees of compression might be
trivial...

I vaguely recall reading some of Alan Turing's ideas on limits, and that
there will always be limiting factors. Of course, often they don't
appear until you run out of what there is a limit on. You want to use
less time sending, but don't have unlimited time to run the compress /
decompression.

>----------
>From:  Peter Hecht[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent:  Tuesday, January 06, 1998 2:43 AM
>To:    [log in to unmask]
>Subject:       Re: [HP3000-L] pkzip compatible software
>
>Greg,
>
>I was unclear.  We have an HP3000 and create files via SUPRTOOL to
>download to our Novell 312.  We then bring it into FoxPro and create
>applications and ad-hoc reporting.
>
>I want to make the hours of downloading reduced.
>
>Peter