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   From: gah@ugcs.caltech.edu   
      
   Jorge wrote:   
      
   > I am researching the most efficient method for streaming text over the   
   > internet. The text is compressed. Currently, I am zipping the text,   
   > and sending it over a tcp socket. This is a "real-time" application,   
   > so the zip file is sent in small pieces. Problem is, the header to   
   > payload ratio is quite large, so not very efficient.   
      
   I am not sure about zlib, bug gzip can compress a stream of   
   data of any length.  I usually do something like:   
      
   gzip < infile | rsh somewhere "gunzip > outfile"   
      
   (I am not so sure about the quotes, but that should   
   show the idea.)   
      
   -- glen   
      
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