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From: anderson@Apple.COM (Clark Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Mac/IBM text compression?
Keywords: Mac,IBM,text,compression
Message-ID: <41855@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 11 Jun 90 18:19:12 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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Greetings,
I have been given the task of finding a way to transmit
compressed data to some of our vendors via modem. The
vendors are all using PC's/ compatibles. (We have all our data
on Macs). The data we are sending is pure ASCII. The vendors have
no problem reading uncompressed text, but the transmission times
are a bit long (1-2 hours).

My question is...is there an application for the Mac that can
compress text files into a format that is easily de-compressed
by a PC? (.ARC format?) I know nothing about PCs, so I have
no idea what's available to them.

As an alternative, is there any documentation available for
a compressed text-file format for the IBM? If necessary, I can
write an application that will do the compression, but I'd
rather not re-invent the screen door, as they say.

Any help would be gratefully appreciated...

                                          --clark

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