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From: kramer@bionette.CS.ORST.EDU (Jack Kramer - CMBL)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Data compression for UNIX/DOS
Keywords: data compression, MS-DOS
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Date: 13 Oct 88 17:51:10 GMT
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In article <394@halley.UUCP> bc@halley.UUCP (Bill Crews) writes:
>In article <461@agrigene.UUCP> overby@agrigene.UUCP (Scott Overby) writes:
>>
>>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.
>


Mortice Kern Systems Inc.
35 King Street North
Waterloo, Ontario
Canada  N2J 2W9

!uunet!watmath!mks!toolkit

519-884-2251

I have used the Toolkit for a couple of years now and it is the only
way I have found to make MSDOS systems acceptable alongside our UNIX
machines.  I cannot recommend it more highly for this and other
similar applications.  vi, grep, sed, awk, cpio, ... make DOS applications
more of an extension to the UNIX utilities than the other way around.

I have no involvement with MK other than as an extremely satisfied
user.