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From: rwh@me.utoronto.ca (Russell Herman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: uncompress on PC - not there yet
Keywords: PC compress
Message-ID: <89Nov19.101032est.18571@me.utoronto.ca>
Date: 19 Nov 89 15:10:25 GMT
References: <824@dukempd.phy.duke.edu> <2565B872.3324@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Organization: U of T Mechanical Engineering
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In article <2565B872.3324@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca
 (Stephen M. Dunn) writes:
>In article <824@dukempd.phy.duke.edu> fang@dukempd.phy.duke.edu (Fang Zhong) writes:
>$	Are there uudecode and uncompress on PC, which are compitible
>$to the ones on Unix system?
>$	Where can I get them?
>
>   A new version just came across comp.binaries.ibm.pc sometime in the past
>week or two.

Yes, but it's still not 100% compatible.  I found a file that had been
compressed elseware (don't know on what) which was accused of corruption
by the recently posted compress 4.0.  I uploaded it to a SUN and it
decompressed without any problems.  A careful reading of the comments
supplied with the posted version brought me to conclude that a UNIX
uncompress will handle files compressed by 4.0, but not necessarily
the converse.

So the need still exists...

Russ Herman
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