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From: 91_bickingd@gar.union.edu (Bicking, David)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Compress in 512K
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Date: 31 May 90 22:58:30 GMT
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>91_bickingd@gar.union.edu (Bicking, David) writes:
>> stuff I wrote deleted.
     
>>	Does anyone out there have a Compress utility that will work in UNDER
>>one meg????  Perhaps Xanth should start storing their files in a less
>>proprietary format (yeah, right :).
     
>compress is hardly proprietary - the sources for it are readily available,
>and it can be found on all kinds of systems.  Perhaps xanth has a copy.
>It also runs just fine on a 512K Amiga, let alone a 1M machine.  Of course,
>you'd better not be doing anything ELSE on that 512K machine, but it WILL
>work.

	Ok. The only version of Compress for the Amiga I have found needs MORE
than one meg, and the docs say, that's "just the way it is".  It is a direct
port of the Unix version.  So if anyone has the BINARY of one that works under
1meg, PLEASE send it.  When I said proprietary, I meant that it is generally
only on unix systems.  It is not used on other systems that I have seen except
to extract files, other systems use PAK, ZIP, ZOO, or PKAX.

>--
>Mike Farren 				     farren@well.sf.ca.us

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