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From: hp48sx@wuarchive.wustl.edu (HP48SX Archive Maintainer)
Subject: Re: HP-48SX chip.zip and pubdom.zip
Message-ID: <1990Sep23.220759.8137@wuarchive.wustl.edu>
Keywords: Compress, tar
Organization: Washington University in Saint Louis
References: <1990Sep22.231650.6873@wuarchive.wustl.edu> <1990Sep22.235856.8106@nntp-server.caltech.edu> <1990Sep23.194329.23673@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de>
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 90 22:07:59 GMT

In article <1990Sep23.194329.23673@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de> horlache@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Ullrich Horlacher) writes:
>And what about people with other operating systems?? We (university of ulm)
>don't have access to UNIX, all our computers are VAX/VMS. There are other
>computer centres with the same problem: NOS/VE VM/CMS etc..

I also often uses a VAX/VMS machine, but we have recently got a lot
of UNIX utilities available, including tar and compress. They were
ported shortly after we got the GNU C compiler.

But if you ever has to download software to your HP48sx, then you
need access to a serial port and kermit. Kermit will almost surely
need a C-compiler to transfered to the machine you are using, and
thus it is also possible to port UNIX utilities. Another aspect is
the serial port, how many users can access the serial port on the
university mainframe ?

When we consider which compression routine to use, we must think of
the users which will get the stuff in the last end. And they will
use PC, Macintosh or Amiga for the largest part. I guess that more
than 80% percent uses one of these machines for downloading to their
HP48sx.

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