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From: mrwittma@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Martin R. Wittmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: 16 bit compress & uncompress for IBM PC
Summary: it exists & I have it
Keywords: UNIX compress uncompress 16 bit MSDOS IBM PC
Message-ID: <10849@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 13 Oct 89 23:11:54 GMT
Reply-To: mrwittma@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Martin Wittmann)
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc
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Organization: Princeton University, NJ
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I read with some amusement the arguments which claimed that a 16 bit
compress/uncompress for MSDOS PCs could not exist.  I was even more 
surprised to see that no one seems to have the same program I have which
does indeed both compress and uncompress files in a completely UNIX 
compatible fashion.  It takes a lot of memory, but I have compressed files
as large as about 270kB (that's the biggest I can recall) and uncompressed
them on an Ultrix machine without difficulty.  How did it do?  The 
compressed size was about 72kB I believe.

Funny thing is, I'm sure I downloaded this from the net (probably c.b.i.p)
some time ago.  Here's the version info and usage output.  Maybe someone
else can figure out where the source is.

>  compress,v 4.3 88/12/26 08:00:00 don Release $
>  Options: MsDos MAXBITS = 16
>  
>  Usage: comp16 [-cCdf?hkKvV][-b maxbits][-Iinpath][-Ooutpath][filenames...]
>  Argument Processing..case is flags are optional.
>       -V => print Version
>       -d => do_decomp default = off
>       -v => verbose
>       -f => force overwrite of output file default = off
>       -n => no header: useful to uncompress old files
>       -c => cat all output to stdout default = off
>       -C => generate output compatible with compress 2.0.
>       -k => keep input file, default == kill (erase)
>       -K => keep output file on error, default == kill (erase)
>       -b maxbits  => default == 16 bits, max == 16 bits
>       -I pathname => infile path  ==
>       -O pathname => outfile path ==
>       -? -h => help usage.

I will gladly post this in c.b.i.p if (a) someone verifies this is OK, since
as I've said I'm not positive about the source of this program, and (b) some-
one sends me directions on who to mail the binary to, and in what format.

This is a GREAT utility... I'd like to see it distributed!

Please email me, since I read this group quite intermittently, and the volume
on it is daunting.
					martin
					mrwittma@phoenix.princeton.edu