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Message from Steven
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Sindi wrote:
>
> wget http://www.grex.org/~keesan/resume.txt | less
> also gives me only (END).
> 
> How do you pipe from wget?

wget -O- http://www.grex.org/~keesan/resume.txt | less

> Does BL3 loop boot more slowly on older computers because 
> it uncompressess fs.gz?  

fs.gz?  Do you mean fs.img?  fs.img is not compressed.

> Would a upx'ed gzipped executable unpack any faster 
> or slower than a non-upx'ed one?

Obviously un-UPXing a file will take time.  So executing
a non-UPXed file will be faster.

> ~10 MB/sec on an ancient Pentium 133, 

I use BL3 on four laptops that are slower than 133 MHz.

> How fast would a 33MHz 486 decompress?  1MB/sec?

I suspect it would be much slower than that.

> The advantage of UPX would be if you are short of hard disk space (in a 
> 20MB loop that you don't know how to enlarge) or for floppy disk if you 
> want to include more programs.
> 
> Kermit shrinks from 2.1MB to 760K.  It took about 2 sec to load 
> (longer to type).  Non-upxed kermit loaded perceptibly faster (instant) 
> but perhaps it was already in cache from loading the upx-ed version.
> This is on a very fast (1.2GHz) computer.

2 sec delay on a 1200 MHz system.  Wow, that's worse than I expected.