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From: pjh@mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: A Unix worthy Compress/Uncompress for the PC
Message-ID: <1989Oct16.202442.14828@mccc.uucp>
Date: 16 Oct 89 20:24:42 GMT
References: <1240@marlin.NOSC.MIL> <40116@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Reply-To: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg)
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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.

I have a happy surprise for you, Jim!  COMP16.EXE, posted to
comp.binaries.ibm.pc some time ago handles ALL UNIX compressed files.

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