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John Grant (jagrant@emr1.emr.ca) wrote:
: In article <1993Jan07.185848.23956@microsoft.com> dwightm@microsoft.com (Dwight Matheny) writes:
: 	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?


NO - it is not compatible with the unix version, nor was it intended
to be.  A most of the DOS users in the world DO NOT use unix, and are
therefore not confused.  
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