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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