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From: rac@sherpa.UUCP (Roger A. Cornelius)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.sources.wanted,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: vi-like editor for the IBM PC
Message-ID: <13@sherpa.UUCP>
Date: 3 Mar 89 20:55:15 GMT
References: <7374@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Organization: Personal System Computing, St. Petersburg, FL
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From article <7374@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>, by wnp@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Wolf Paul):
- In article <776@microsoft.UUCP> w-colinp@microsoft.uucp (Colin Plumb) writes:
->ked@garnet.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth) wrote:
->> MKS (Mortice Kern Systems)
- 
->compress
->uncompress
->zcat
- 
- Unfortunately these handle only 12-bit compression and can't handle
- UNIX-compressed files (usually 16-bit)

If I remember correctly, the MKS compress programs will handle up to 14
bit compression.  One thing I don't like about them though, is they
won't compress/decompress in place.  They only write to stdout, so to
do something like 'compress -d *.c', requires a for loop or something
similar.

Roger