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Re: Seeking a .Z compress utility for the PC

#86
From: Daniel W. James
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1992 23:24
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vito@well.sf.ca.us (Andris Paul Vitols) writes:


:)I am looking for a program that can "de-compress" a .Z Unix archive that is
:)on my PC.  Please direct me to an FTP site.  Thanks.

This question really belongs in comp.binaries.ibm.pc.archives, but in
anycase, a search of the archives over at simtel finds:
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Directory PD1:<MSDOS.C>
 Filename   Type Length   Date    Description
 ==============================================
U16PC.ARC     B   15147  881208  'C' language source for 'uncompress' for PC

Directory PD1:<MSDOS.COMPRESS>
Filename   Type Length   Date    Description
==============================================
COMP430D.ZIP  B   20241  901013  Unix-compatible 16bit compress/uncompress/zcat
COMP430S.ZIP  B   70872  910224  C src: Unix-compat. 16-bit compress/uncompress
DECOMP2.ZIP   B   17384  900430  Unix-compatible 16 bit uncompress, w/C source
HUFF_SC.ZIP   B   40299  910713  Huffman compress encoder/decoder, C src & EXEs
LZ13.ARC      B   34046  881020  Limpel-Ziv file compress/decompress w/ASM src
LZWPC.ARC     B   17027  871231  Lemple-Zev Compression Routines in C
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From: dwj@sactoh0.sac.ca.us (Daniel W. James)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Seeking a .Z compress utility for the PC
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Date: 30 Oct 92 23:24:26 GMT
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