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by masklinn 170 days ago
Surely that is obvious to anyone who has compared zip and tgz?
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skulk 170 days ago
MUD clients and servers use MCCP which is essentially keeping a zlib stream open, adding text to it, and flushing it whenever something is received. I think this has been around since 2000.

https://tintin.mudhalla.net/protocols/mccp/

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