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From: larryd!bnrmtl@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (Larry Dunkelman)
Subject: Mainframe -> Unix
Message-ID: <1991Mar30.052812.24567@scrumpy@.bnr.ca>
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Organization: Bell Northern Research Montreal, Canada.
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 91 05:28:12 GMT

I have to move about 600meg of data from a mainframe (MVS) to a Unix
machine across a relatively slow network.  I really should be using
tapes, but it is a real pain.  The data that I have transfered
compresses extremely well using 'compress'.  I was getting 7-1 compression
ratio.  

I am looking for a compression program which runs on MVS and Unix so that
I can reduce the transfer time from over a day to about 4 hours (assuming
I can achieve similar results to compress).

The data to be transfered is 'text' (numbers, letters, blanks, etc.)

Does anyone out there have any ideas ?

Larry Dunkelman
Bell-Northern Research
larryd!bnrmtl@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu