sechzer@zodiac.rutgers.edu (SELIG SECHZER * DEPT OF ECONOMICS * RUTGERS UNIV) (10/23/89)
This isn't exactly the same as what you folks were discussing but ... I'd be interested in some file compression software which runs on a VAX and a PC. The purpose for this would be to compress files before a VAX---> PC or PC---> VAX transfer. Thanks Selig L. Sechzer sechzer@pisces.rutgers.edu sechzer@zodiac
chasm@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Charles Marslett) (10/26/89)
In article <212@zodiac.rutgers.edu>, sechzer@zodiac.rutgers.edu (SELIG SECHZER * DEPT OF ECONOMICS * RUTGERS UNIV) writes:
:: This isn't exactly the same as what you folks were discussing but ...
:: I'd be interested in some file compression software which runs on a VAX
:: and a PC. The purpose for this would be to compress files before a VAX---> PC
:: or PC---> VAX transfer.
::
:: Thanks
::
:: Selig L. Sechzer
:: sechzer@pisces.rutgers.edu
:: sechzer@zodiac
Compress should run quite well on a VAX, at least with a little twiddling
of the file nameing, opening, etc., code. I brought up an early version
under MSDOS (1.4 or so), before there was explicit MSDOS support in the
distributed code, and it took only about 3 or 4 hours to get it to work
(small model, even, though I did use several "far" arrays -- and the source
was not very Unix compatible after the edits, as they say about q-a-d code).
VMS should not have any array size problems, so that just leaves the file
system. And the traditional CR <--> CR/LF gotcha.
Charles