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Greetings,
I have been given the task of finding a way to transmit
compressed data to some of our vendors via modem. The
vendors are all using PC's/ compatibles. (We have all our data
on Macs). The data we are sending is pure ASCII. The vendors have
no problem reading uncompressed text, but the transmission times
are a bit long (1-2 hours).

My question is...is there an application for the Mac that can
compress text files into a format that is easily de-compressed
by a PC? (.ARC format?) I know nothing about PCs, so I have
no idea what's available to them.

As an alternative, is there any documentation available for
a compressed text-file format for the IBM? If necessary, I can
write an application that will do the compression, but I'd
rather not re-invent the screen door, as they say.

Any help would be gratefully appreciated...

                                          --clark

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Clark Anderson                  InterNet:  anderson@apple.com
CPU Engineering                 AppleLink: C.ANDERSON
Apple Computer, Inc             BellNet:   408-974-4593

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