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From: madd@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Jim Frost)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: A Unix worthy Compress/Uncompress for the PC
Message-ID: <40116@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 11 Oct 89 21:54:38 GMT
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In article <1240@marlin.NOSC.MIL> jbjones@marlin.nosc.mil.UUCP (John B. Jones) writes:
|I'm searching for a compress/uncompress which will uncompress Unix
|compressed files on my AT.  Does anyone have a copy they could send?
|It has to do 16 bit uncompression, I believe.  

I don't believe you'll find one.  UNIX does 16-bit L-Z compression,
which requires something like 512k data space to operate, leaving
precious little space for the code on a full 640k machine.  Most PC
L-Z compression utilities use 12-bit, which fits much more
comfortably.

jim frost
madd@std.com