Re: cross-platform compression?

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From: Jonathan Gapen
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 08:09

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In article <4knbno$q11@news.cerf.net> sb03678@dsa.dsa.dassault.com (Ian Ferris) writes:
> Is there a file compression/decompression tool that can be used
> across platforms?  For instance, I might want to compress source
> code on a UNIX machine or PC and uncompress it on an Amiga, or
> vice-versa.
> 
> If there is such a tool, where can (source code for) it be found?

   GZIP fits the bill.  It is distributed under the GNU Public License, as far
as I know, and many people have already ported it to Amiga, MS-DOS, UNIX, and
many others.

-- 
Jonathan Gapen (innuendo@execpc.com)
Bread in, toast out. How does it DO that?

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