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In article <1993Jan07.185848.23956@microsoft.com> dwightm@microsoft.com (Dwight Matheny) writes:
>COMPRESS.EXE comes in the Win 3.1 SDK, and MS does not provide this
>separately. Since you get your tools from Borland, you should be able
>to get this from Borland also. Borland is part of our Open Tools program,
>and COMPRESS.EXE is one of the files that they have a license to 
>redistribute.
>
>-Dwight (MS)

	Yes, it does come with Borland C++.

	However, the bad news is that it would appear to be
	not compatible with the version of compress on Unix
	systems.  I compressed an ASCII file with both the
	MS compress and the Unix compress and while the compression
	amounts were similar, the contents of the files were not
	even close.  I dumped the Unix-compressed file and most of
	it was unreadable binary stuff.  On the other hand, the
	MS-compressed file was partially readable.

	So what gives here?  Is it the same algorithm or not?  Are
	they compatible or not?  Why not!!!!!!!!!!  Shouldn't
	MS's compress.exe be renamed to mscomp.exe so it
	won't get confused with the 'real' compress utility?
-- 
John A. Grant						jagrant@emr1.emr.ca
Airborne Geophysics
Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa