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From: jcs@tarkus.UUCP (John C. Sucilla)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Standard for file transmission
Message-ID: <86@tarkus.UUCP>
Date: 4 May 88 00:31:49 GMT
References: <292@cullsj.UUCP> <55@psuhcx.psu.edu>
Reply-To: jcs@tarkus.UUCP (John C. Sucilla)
Organization: tarkus -- Calumet City, IL.
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Keywords: protocol compression source
Summary: compress noises

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 .

Wrong! My 640K AT&T PC6300 has compress v4.0 running 16 bits on it
right now. -V shows the options at: MSDOS, XENIX_16 and BITS=16.


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John "C" Sucilla
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