Hi Julie,

If you have COMPRESSION disabled, COMPRESSALWAYS is meaningless. With
COMPRESSALWAYS (and COMPRESSION) enabled, all it means is that, should
the file grow during compression, the compressed file should be sent
anyway, rather than send the uncompressed file.

While I haven't tested it, I wouldn't think that there would be any
difference in compression speed between V2 and V3. We also run with
compression disabled, and have no plans to change.


Trevor

        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Julie Phinney [SMTP:jphinney AT HUMANA DOT COM]
        Sent:   Wednesday, March 18, 1998 3:22 PM
        To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
        Subject:        Compressalways option for V3 client

        I noticed the default in the V3 client has changed from
compressalways NO
        to    compressalways YES.
        We don't use compression in any of our large local clients
because it's
        always been faster to not compress.
        Have any of you switched from no compression to compression with
your v3
        rollouts?   Is compression now significantly faster to justify
this change
        of default?
        Should I use the new capability with V3 on the host to change
all the
        clients back to compressalways NO?
        Thanks,
        Julie