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From: michael@sunham.germany.sun.com (Michael Joswig (Vertriebsunterstuetzung Hamburg))
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: compress (2nd)
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Date: 27 Sep 90 09:03:28 GMT
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Jaime (jds@cs.umd.edu) asked
>Michael,
>
>Are you CERTAIN that this version of compress you mention will uncompress
>16bit-compressed files under normal PC Minix?  You aren't talking about DOS
>or 32-bit Minix?
>
>If so, please do let us know where you got it.  Such a beast would be quite
>a feat of bit-bumming: the normal compress wants more than 400k of data
>space to do 16bit compress/uncompress.
>
>Jaime

Well, I use this compress on my Atari ST and it seems to work fine. There
is an option "-b n", where n means the maximal bit-number and ranges up
to 16. But I must say, I had just yesterday (when this discussion started)
small problems on BIG compressed files, which were compressed on one of
this neat sparcstations. I haven't any idea, why it was nor if it's my 
or the programs fault...
I have a headache now, because I thought so much where I got it!
But I think, it was "dsrgsun.ces.cwru.edu" and this leads to our next
problem: Yesterday I tried to ftp this site. I connected, but it was
*EMPTY*!!!!!!!!!!
If there is somebody from this site in the net, please tell me, what 
happened. My next session is on monday (I can read this newsgroup only
twice a week, but I read all!), and if there is no response from the
site, I post the whole lot (I cannot tell you if there is a Makefile for
PC).
Ciao,
      Michael.