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- This is the latest available version of compress from mod.sources on
- usenet. It's basic functionality, except for unix specific actions,
- is unchanged. To compress a file "foo.c" on the AMIGA:
-
- compress foo.c
-
- which will make a new compressed file "foo.c.Z". To uncompress the
- file:
-
- compress -d foo.c
-
- which will create a new "foo.c" from the compressed "foo.c.Z".
-
- Note that this program has not been extensively tested yet on the
- AMIGA, so be careful compressing files and then removing the only
- original uncompressed files without having a backup.
-
- Also note that many of the files here are not applicable to the Amiga,
- but are included for completeness. You may wish to someday transfer this
- to a Unix system, even use it on a future Amiga running Unix.
-
- One last thing, this distribution also contains the programs "btoa" and
- "atob", which can be used to tranform Amiga binary files into ascii files
- for transmission over links that do not support 8-bit transfers, then
- conversion back to binary files.
-
- -Fred Fish
- 14-Jan-86
-