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From: bc@halley.UUCP (Bill Crews)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards,comp.sys.pyramid
Subject: Re: Data compression for UNIX/DOS
Keywords: data compression, MS-DOS
Message-ID: <394@halley.UUCP>
Date: 13 Oct 88 03:17:59 GMT
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Reply-To: bc@halley.UUCP (Bill Crews)
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In article <461@agrigene.UUCP> overby@agrigene.UUCP (Scott Overby) writes:
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>Is there any software available to compress files in UNIX, transfer it to an IBM compatible PC, and uncompress it on the PC?

Mortice Kern Software, a Canadian company just across the border, has a
software package for DOS called the MKS Toolkit.  In the version I have,
it includes a Unix-compatible pack and unpack.  I believe the latest version
includes a compatible compress, which should be about as good as you can get
both for degree of compression (Lempel-Ziv) and Unix compatibility.

It is $139US.  They advertise in places like Computer Language and PC Tech
Journal.  My manual is loaned out, so I can't provide the number right now.

-bc
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