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From: tadguy@cs.odu.edu (Tad Guy)
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Subject: Re: Archivers
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Date: 6 Nov 89 14:24:26 GMT
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In-reply-to: jac@muslix.llnl.gov's message of 6 Nov 89 00:46:45 GMT

In article <37713@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> jac@muslix.llnl.gov (James Crotinger) writes:
   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. 

The source for the UNIX compress is freely distributable, and compiled just
fine for me with Lattice (this was a long time ago).  The limitation of 12 bits
is due to memory size.  If you have plenty-o-ram, you can compile uncompress to
handle 16 bits...  (Other uncompress programs get around this in other ways).

	...tad