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From: hartl@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Anton Hartl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: A Unix worthy Compress/Uncompress for the PC
Summary: there is a 16 bit uncompress for DOS
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Date: 12 Oct 89 10:49:38 GMT
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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.  

The 512K data space is right if you're compressing files;
for uncompressing files you only need about 280K. 
An uncompress program for DOS appeared February this year 
in comp.binaries.ibm.pc as volume 01 issue 108.
I've tried out this program once and it worked fine.


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