Xref: utzoo comp.sources.d:1996 comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d:43 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!ll-xn!mit-eddie!killer!csccat!loci From: loci@csccat.UUCP (Chuck Brunow) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Standard for file transmission Message-ID: <537@csccat.UUCP> Date: 2 May 88 23:39:38 GMT References: <292@cullsj.UUCP> <55@psuhcx.psu.edu> Organization: Loci Products Lines: 7 Keywords: protocol compression source In article <55@psuhcx.psu.edu> wcf@psuhcx (Bill Fenner) writes: >Just one thing that needs to be known -- PC's can do no more than 12-bit >compression. So if you are compressing your file from a UNIX system, >you need to say comress -b12 filename . > Are you quite sure about that? 13-bit compress will run on other 64k segment machines (80?86 based).