Data compression for UNIX/DOS

[Rick Farris]

In article <394 at halley.UUCP| bc at halley.UUCP (Bill Crews) writes:
|In article <461 at agrigene.UUCP> overby at agrigene.UUCP (Scott Overby) writes:
|>
|>Is there any software available to compress files in UNIX, transfer it to
|>an IBM compatible PC, and uncompress it on the PC?
|
|Mortice Kern Software, a Canadian company just across the border, has a
|software package for DOS called the MKS Toolkit.  In the version I have,
|it includes a Unix-compatible pack and unpack.  I believe the latest version
|includes a compatible compress, which should be about as good as you can get
|both for degree of compression (Lempel-Ziv) and Unix compatibility.
|

Another nice feature of the MKS Toolkit is their cpio.  It's much more
convenient for transferring multiple files between dos and unix/xenix than
the doscp programs usually supplied.  Doscp (at least Xenix doscp) doesn't
support wildcards.  So you've got to explicitly bring each file over.  It's 
really nice to use MKS cpio to package up all the files on the dos machine
and then cpio them into your Unix box, or vice versa.

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