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From: berny@tndsyd.oz (Berny Goodheart)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv286
Subject: Re: how to compile pcomm in sysv
Message-ID: <501@tndsyd.oz>
Date: 25 Oct 90 05:10:40 GMT
References: <1990Oct22.092129.1@acad3.fai.alaska.edu>
Organization: TANDEM Computers Incorporated, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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In article <1990Oct22.092129.1@acad3.fai.alaska.edu>, fsdal1@acad3.fai.alaska.edu writes:
> Has anyone ported Pcomm or their other favorite communications program to
> uPort sysV/286 ? I am trying to but my compiler hangs on two of the X-modem
> procedures and I have to do a hard reboot (most unhappy!) I tried throwing 
> in a -Ml to use the large lib but to no avail.
> 

The 286 is only capable of compressing to 12 BITS. Most
32 bit machines compress files to 16 bits. If the files you are trying
to de-compress where originally compressed on a 32 bit machine, then the
chances are you will not be able to decompress them on the 286
unless they where compressed on the 32 bit machine with a switch "-b12".
unpack uses a different algorithm and requires files to be compressed
using the UNIX pack(1) file. These files use the ".z" file name extention
and not the ".Z" as used by the PD compress utility. pack(1) files are not
compatible with compressed files.

Regards...berny