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From: chan@eeserv (Andrew Chan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: A Unix worthy Compress/Uncompress for the PC
Message-ID: <1989Oct12.160650.22360@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: 12 Oct 89 16:06:50 GMT
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>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.
>

I tried "Compress 4.0" available from uunet.uu.net.  I had successfully compiled
it using 16 bit compression on Microsoft C.  I had to modify (easy) the code
a little bit to handle the filenames.  Also, defining the symbol XENIX will
split some of the arrays into 2 so that the program fits easier.

From what I can see, may be this program _was_ written with MS-DOS PC as
possible target machine.  I just wonder why they had not fixed the filename
part.