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From: laba-5ac@web7f.berkeley.edu (Erik Talvola)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Standard for file transmission
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Date: 5 May 88 19:43:09 GMT
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In article <1082@maynard.BSW.COM> campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell) writes:
<>In article <4740@teddy.UUCP> jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson) 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 .
<><>
<><>This myth has been repeated several times, so I felt it was necessary to
<><>speak up.  PCs most certainly CAN do a 16 bit compress/uncompress.  ...
<>
<>Only a subset of PCs can do 16-bit compress/uncompress.  Mine can't.
<>I'm running VENIX/86 2.0, which is basically V7;  the PCC-derived
<>C compiler has only the tiny and small memory models (exactly
<>corresponding to non-split and split PDP-11s, which also cannot
<>handle 16-bit compress).
<>
<>So it is true that PCs with a C compiler that supports multiple data
<>segments can handle 16-bit compress, but that hardly encompasses all
<>PCs in the world.
<>-- 

What's wrong with getting a 16-bit Compress executable file for the PC
which was compiled with a proper C compiler?  Then, you can run a 16-bit
compress on any PC.  You are right in that you may not be able to compile
it with all C compilers, but you can run the executable on any PC (as long
as you have ~500K free).


>Larry Campbell                                The Boston Software Works, Inc.
>Internet: campbell@maynard.bsw.com          120 Fulton Street, Boston MA 02109
>uucp: {husc6,mirror,think}!maynard!campbell         +1 617 367 6846


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