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From: chasm@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Charles Marslett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: uncompress on PC - not there yet
Summary: Try 4.3
Keywords: PC compress
Message-ID: <10279@attctc.Dallas.TX.US>
Date: 21 Nov 89 03:55:33 GMT
References: <824@dukempd.phy.duke.edu> <2565B872.3324@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <89Nov19.101032est.18571@me.utoronto.ca>
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas
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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.  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.

I have been using compress 4.3 on both a Unix system (interactive 386/ix)
and MSDOS and have had no problems with any conpressed files -- the code
is even there for the special handling MSDOS requires so stdin and stdout
can be compressed (binary) files.

:: Russ Herman
:: INTERNET: rwh@me.utoronto.ca  UUCP: ..uunet!utai!me!rwh


Charles
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