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- From: a7657@mindlink.bc.ca (Stephen H. Kawamoto)
- Subject: Re: best method for compressing text files
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 19:00:41 GMT
- Message-ID: <17328@mindlink.bc.ca>
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- GH> Msg-ID: <Nov.10.00.59.59.1992.29852@gandalf.rutgers.edu>
- GH> Posted: 10 Nov 92 05:59:59 GMT
- GH>
- GH> I know that this question has been posted to the group before,
- GH> but I am looking for a compression method (preferably
- GH> extremely portable code) that is best in compression (*not*
- GH> speed) for text files exclusively (or not). PostScript files
- GH> tend to be extremely cumbersome, and pkzip just doesn't do the
- GH> job to make it feasible to transfer most ps files between a
- GH> dos machine and a unix machine when the modem speed is 2400 bps.
- True. Have you tried ARJ yet?
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- Then there's LHA by Mr. Yoshizaki. It's PD code.
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- GH> I'd like to have some code or two identical packages: one for
- GH> unix, one for msdos, so that a 500K text file will be
- GH> considerably smaller than 500K, i.e. << 100K. Does anyone have
- GH> an answer for me either negative or positive? Speed is of no
- GH> concern to compress the files when it will most likely take
- GH> much less time than the 20-30 minutes for file transfer with
- GH> pkzip techniques, and it is also time consuming to generate
- GH> the ps files from wp51.
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- I wouldnt know what ports in Unix would be available for ARJ but source for
- Lempel-Zev Huffman compression is PD and ready to be FTPed.
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- But you want an implementation of the code not some dusty old C program
- right? :)
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