From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan)
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 02:03:58 -0400
Subject: [TUHS] the sin of buffering [offshoot of excise process from a
 pipeline]
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Larry McVoy scripsit:

> We tried that but the problem is that you can't encode all the options you
> want in just a character.  Compression doesn't take options, the CRC/XOR
> layer wants to know how big you might think the file is (because we 
> support blocksizes from about 256B to 256K and we want to know the 
> file size to guess the block size).

It's a string: you can have as many characters as you want.

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John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org
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