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From: ddl@husc6.harvard.edu (Dan Lanciani)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: uncompress on PC - not there yet
Keywords: PC compress
Message-ID: <3215@husc6.harvard.edu>
Date: 20 Nov 89 01:12:36 GMT
References: <824@dukempd.phy.duke.edu> <2565B872.3324@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <89Nov19.101032est.18571@me.utoronto.ca>
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In article <89Nov19.101032est.18571@me.utoronto.ca>, rwh@me.utoronto.ca (Russell Herman) writes:
| 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.

	Could I get a sample of such a file?  Alternately, could you
try it with the compress.exe available from husc6.harvard.edu in
pub/pcip?  I believe this version to be fully compatible.

				Dan Lanciani
				ddl@harvard.*