I know that this question has been posted to the group before, but I am looking for a compression method (preferably extremely portable code) that is best
in compression (*not* speed) for text files exclusively (or not). PostScript
files tend to be extremely cumbersome, and pkzip just doesn't do the job to
make it feasible to transfer most ps files between a dos machine and a unix
machine when the modem speed is 2400 bps.
I'd like to have some code or two identical packages: one for unix, one for
msdos, so that a 500K text file will be considerably smaller than 500K, i.e.
<< 100K. Does anyone have an answer for me either negative or positive? Speed
is of no concern to compress the files when it will most likely take much less
time than the 20-30 minutes for file transfer with pkzip techniques, and it
is also time consuming to generate the ps files from wp51.
I would rather that you *post* your replies to the newsgroup; however, if this
is cumbersome to the group, feel free and reply by e-mail.