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From: lbr@holos0.uucp (Len Reed)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: File Compression Utilities wanted
Message-ID: <1989Sep15.210010.3502@holos0.uucp>
Date: 15 Sep 89 21:00:10 GMT
References: <1989Sep12.123616.18152@ziebmef.mef.org> <158@egrunix.UUCP>
Reply-To: lbr@holos0.UUCP (Len Reed)
Organization: Holos Software, Inc., Atlanta, GA
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In article <158@egrunix.UUCP> srodawa@unix.secs.oakland.edu.UUCP (Ronald Srodawa) writes:
=In article <1989Sep12.123616.18152@ziebmef.mef.org> rocchi@ziebmef.mef.org (Paul Rocchi) writes:
>>
=>Does anybody out there have the name (or source) for a good UNIX/XENIX file
=>compression utility? 
=
=Compress, a widely available unix utility, compiles targeted for xenix systems
=as an option.  It is widely available by means of anonymous ftp from several
=sites.  I don't remember where I got mine, but try uunet.uu.net and
=tut.cis.ohio-state.edu for starters.

Compress/uncompress/zcat is part of the 386 Xenix release.  It was not part
of the earlier 286 versions, we traded up to 386 so I don't know if SCO
is shipping compress with the 286 system.

Compress comes with the net-news package, too.  

Compress will work far better than pack with database files, since such
files typically have repeating fields.
-- 
Len Reed
Holos Software, Inc.
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