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From: cbema!las@cbnews.ATT.COM (cbema!las)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: A Unix worthy Compress/Uncompress for the PC
Message-ID: <10163@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 12 Oct 89 16:53:55 GMT
References: <40116@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Reply-To: cbema!las@cbnews.ATT.COM (Larry A. Shurr,20650,cb,9a110,6148605851)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, OH (actually an AGS consultant)
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In article <40116@bu-cs.BU.EDU> madd@cs.bu.edu (Jim Frost) writes:
}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.

Mortice Kern System's compress/uncompress can do 14-bit LZ compression.
I have a program called U16 for the PC which can *uncompress* 16-bit
LZ compressed files - so far as I know, there's no 16-bit compress for 
the PC.

regards, Larry
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