From: nowhere@never.at   
      
   sorry for the delayed response,   
      
   I think we could combine a 5:4 ASCII-to-BIN and a pack algo. ie:   
   my first thought was about a 5 bit encoded text which may cover   
   all ASCII incl. all controls from 00..7F in five groups [01..1A],   
   1B..1F are group prefixes and 00 used as terminator.   
      
   We first would need to convert TEXT_5 to TEXT_8 and then 5:4 to BIN.   
   this way we may be able to save up to 40% on transfer bandwidth.   
      
   and as we are on packing algos...   
   my preference would be a compromise of speed vs compression rate.   
      
   let's discuss some pack/unpack variants around so far...   
   I haven't studied any yet.   
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   wolfgang   
      
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