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>I'm trying to get some DXF files from a PC to an Amiga 400 for use in 
>Lightwave. The problem being that some of the files are too large to fit 
>on a diskette, and I know very little about compression on the Amiga. I 
>know it can be done, but where are the tools and how do I get them? 

>Also, this whole problem would be avoided if I knew anything about using 
>a modem on the Amiga. I know these questions must sound inane to a 
>hardcore Amiga user, but I'm up against a deadline and I need to get 
>these files soon. 

>Can anyone tell me a little something about communications and 
>compression on the Amiga, or at least where I could find this information?

If you want to transfer the files to disk, you can zip them up as
usual using pkzip, and unzip them on the Amiga. There's an unzip util
for the Amiga on Aminet in util/arc, called 'unzip' I believe.

There's also LHA for Dos which you could use to compress the files,
and un-LHA them on the Amiga. Lha is the preferred compression on the
Amiga.

That's assuming that by compressing the files, they will actually fit
on a 1.44Mb disk.

You could connect the Amiga and PC via a Null-modem cable and transfer
the files via Z-Modem using Terminal in Windows, and NComm/Term on the
Amiga, both on Aminet under comm/term

Or, if your PC and Amiga both have a SCSI card, buy a Zip Drive ;-)