Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!caip!think!husc6!wjh12!gst From: gst@wjh12.HARVARD.EDU (Gary S. Trujillo) Newsgroups: net.sources.d Subject: Re: a compress/uncompress for PC-DOS??? Message-ID: <6@wjh12.HARVARD.EDU> Date: Fri, 4-Jul-86 20:29:53 EDT Article-I.D.: wjh12.6 Posted: Fri Jul 4 20:29:53 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Jul-86 08:27:46 EDT References: <4700005@woods> <2262@usceast.UUCP> <588@ethos.UUCP> Reply-To: gst@wjh12.UUCP (Gary S. Trujillo) Organization: Aiken Comp Lab, Harvard Lines: 53 In article <588@ethos.UUCP> jay@ethos.UUCP (Jay Denebeim) writes: >In article <2262@usceast.UUCP> godawski@usceast.UUCP (Mike godawski) writes: >>Does anybody out there in netland know of a file that compresses >>files like the unix COMPRESS command and uncompresses them like >>the UNIX uncompress command to run on an ibmpc with 3.1 dos? >>If sources are available (possibly c that'll compile with aztec), >>i'd appreciate it. >> >>mwg > >Yeah, check last week's postings. ARC uses limphel-zev (sp?) encoding, which >is what us used in compress. I've noticed that ARC isn't quite as good though. > >-- >Jay Denebeim "One world, one egg, one basket." > {seismo,decvax,ihnp4}!mcnc!rti-sel!ethos!jay > Deep Thought, ZNode #42 300/1200/2400 919-471-6436 I checked with Brent Chapman, who had answered someone's query somewhere along the line about compress, regarding the names of what Jay had posted to mod.sources, for those of us who missed it, and received the following reply: From chapman%pavepaws@BERKELEY.EDU Fri Jul 4 17:37:52 1986 Subject: Re: a compress/uncompress for PC-DOS!!! Date: Fri, 04 Jul 86 14:38:26 -0800 From: Brent Chapman The files you want are on usc-isib.arpa (or b.isi.edu, under the new addressing scheme). You can do an anonymous FTP. The files are in directory . There are three files you need: compress.c compress.doc compress.make We're having some problems with our news server this afternoon, so I'll let you have the glory of posting this. Brent -- Brent Chapman chapman@pavepaws.berkeley.edu ucbvax!pavepaws!chapman TANSTAAFL! (There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch!) -- Gary Trujillo (harvard!wjh12!gst)