[Sheflug] Aha!

[Craig Andrews <nospam [at] fishbot.org.uk>]

Right. I have discovered it's dastardly secret. The .tar.gz file was not,
in fact, gzipped, but was a plain tar.

I just gzipped it and it reduced to a mere 1.3MB. This equates to 4KB/s
transfer rate. Much more realistic.

Still, it proves that compression technology can be good enough to squeeze
a large, highly compressible file down sufficiently to make it as though
you compressed it manually?

Anyway. Mystery solved. Shame really. I would have liked that sort of
speed of my modem ;)

Craig

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