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From: w8sdz@smoke.BRL.MIL (Keith Petersen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: A Unix worthy Compress/Uncompress for the PC
Message-ID: <11293@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 15 Oct 89 19:41:55 GMT
References: <1240@marlin.NOSC.MIL> <2849@husc6.harvard.edu>
Reply-To: w8sdz@brl.arpa (Keith Petersen)
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In article <2849@husc6.harvard.edu> ddl@husc6.harvard.edu (Dan Lanciani) writes:
>	The file compress.exe in pub/pcip on husc6.harvard.edu
>does 16 bit compression/decompression.  It is available for
>anonymous ftp.  (Use compress -d to uncompress.)   The source is around
>somewhere but not handy at the moment; it was a fairly trivial modification
>of the standard usenet distribution.

Be careful of this file.  I downloaded it from husc6.harvard.edu and
attempted to run the program on my MSDOS machine.  It bombed.  I checked
the file with DEBUG and found it's the XENIX version of compress, not
the MSDOS version.

Keith
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