Path: utzoo!censor!becker!bdb
From: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Archivers
Message-ID: <1030@becker.UUCP>
Date: 6 Nov 89 11:41:17 GMT
References: <8911052127.AA03986@astro.psu.edu> <37713@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>
Reply-To: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario
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In article <37713@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> jac@muslix.UUCP (James Crotinger) writes:
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|  The .Z files are compressed with the UNIX compress command, and can
|be uncompressed with the same (or with uncompress). Unfortunately I'm
|not aware of a P.D.  version of compress for the Amiga that can handle
|16 bit compression, which is the default if the file was compressed on
|a UNIX system. I have a version that does this, but it came with
|A-Talk III and is probably not PD.

	The compress which comes with Loftus Uucp/News
	system handles 16 bits. It is a PD distribution
	as far as I know.

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