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From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: A Unix worthy Compress/Uncompress for the PC
Message-ID: <96@vidiot.UUCP>
Date: 12 Oct 89 17:57:08 GMT
References: <1240@marlin.NOSC.MIL> <40116@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout
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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.

Sorry, but there is one called U16.  It works really good.  It was obtained
from the ibm-pc binaries news group, so is probably in an archive someplace,
like maybe SIMTEL20.
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