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- From: innuendo@execpc.com (Jonathan Gapen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
- Subject: Re: cross-platform compression?
- Date: 13 Apr 1996 08:09:54 GMT
- Organization: esCom Amiga Madison Enthusiast's Organisation
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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?
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- 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.
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- Jonathan Gapen (innuendo@execpc.com)
- Bread in, toast out. How does it DO that?
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