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From: ignatz@aicchi.UUCP (Ihnat)
Newsgroups: net.sources.d
Subject: Re: a compress/uncompress for PC-DOS???
Message-ID: <775@aicchi.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 4-Jul-86 19:22:03 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul  4 19:22:03 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 7-Jul-86 01:17:48 EDT
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Reply-To: ignatz@aicchi.UUCP (Ihnat)
Organization: Analysts International Corp; Chicago Branch
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Keywords: compress DOS
Summary: compress works on DOS 2.x

I have successfully ported the compress program to both MS-DOS and (believe
it or not) VAX/VMS.  The version I used was 4.0, as posted to mod.sources.
My machine was a Zenith Z-171, which has proven quite PC-compatible.

While hooks are in the code indicating that some effort was expended in
attempting to take the PC into account, it's obvious from the name generation
algorithm that it couldn't have ever worked on the PC, as distributed.
(Do you know how DOS hates the name 'junk.c.z'?)  I modified it to prepend
a 'z_' to the filename; it still needs work, however, to handle multiple
files and paths.  But it does work...I've compressed files on Unix, shipped
them to a PC and uncompressed them; both forwarded them to the Vax and
recompressed before shipping to the Vax, and uncompressed them there. 
(And, of course, tried the reverse route, too.)
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	Dave Ihnat
	Analysts International Corporation
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