[X-Unix] two shell scripts for those behind dialup connections

[Michael Winter]

On Aug 25, 2005, at 6:14 PM, Timothy Luoma wrote:

>
> I often find that I want to download a large PDF that isn't  
> compressed.  (I don't know why they don't at least .zip them)
>
> Since I am behind a slow dialup connection, so it's worth a little  
> extra effort to make the download faster.

Its been a long time since I've had to deal with this kind of issue  
(since the days of X,Y,Z-modem transfers) for large files, but I  
thought there was no need for compressing the file, since the modem 
(s) should be doing it for you (compress->modulate->send->demodulate- 
 >decompress). Or does this not happen when using IP?

Just curious about it and wondering if there isn't a more generic way  
of doing it.

-Mike