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From: richw@hplsla.HP.COM (Rich Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: xxxx.xxxx.Z files
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Date: 31 Aug 90 15:21:47 GMT
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/ hplsla:comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc / jan@cancol.oz (Jan Newmarch) /  6:50 pm  Aug 30, 1990 /
In article <1899@ac.dal.ca>, ssmith@ac.dal.ca writes:
but
> Does anybody know where I could
> FTP a copy of UNCOMPRESS????

I don't know about a free copy, but if you buy the MKS toolkit (Unix
tools running under DOS) it includes uncompress

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From MKS documentation for compress(1) 
   "This implementation of compress is limited to a maximum of 14 bit
    compression"

The limit apparently also applies to uncompress, since I recieved an
error message when I tried to uncompress a file which utilized 16 bit
compression the other day.

Rumor has it there might be something on SIMTEL. I haven't looked.

Rich Wilson