overby@agrigene.UUCP (Scott Overby) (10/11/88)
Is there any software available to compress files in UNIX, transfer it to an IBM compatible PC, and uncompress it on the PC?
bc@halley.UUCP (Bill Crews) (10/13/88)
In article <461@agrigene.UUCP> overby@agrigene.UUCP (Scott Overby) writes: > >Is there any software available to compress files in UNIX, transfer it to an IBM compatible PC, and uncompress it on the PC? Mortice Kern Software, a Canadian company just across the border, has a software package for DOS called the MKS Toolkit. In the version I have, it includes a Unix-compatible pack and unpack. I believe the latest version includes a compatible compress, which should be about as good as you can get both for degree of compression (Lempel-Ziv) and Unix compatibility. It is $139US. They advertise in places like Computer Language and PC Tech Journal. My manual is loaned out, so I can't provide the number right now. -bc -- Bill Crews bc@halley.UUCP (512) 244-8350 ..!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!halley!bc
kramer@bionette.CS.ORST.EDU (Jack Kramer - CMBL) (10/14/88)
In article <394@halley.UUCP> bc@halley.UUCP (Bill Crews) writes: >In article <461@agrigene.UUCP> overby@agrigene.UUCP (Scott Overby) writes: >> >>Is there any software available to compress files in UNIX, transfer it to an IBM compatible PC, and uncompress it on the PC? > >Mortice Kern Software, a Canadian company just across the border, has a >software package for DOS called the MKS Toolkit. In the version I have, >it includes a Unix-compatible pack and unpack. I believe the latest version >includes a compatible compress, which should be about as good as you can get >both for degree of compression (Lempel-Ziv) and Unix compatibility. > >It is $139US. They advertise in places like Computer Language and PC Tech >Journal. My manual is loaned out, so I can't provide the number right now. > Mortice Kern Systems Inc. 35 King Street North Waterloo, Ontario Canada N2J 2W9 !uunet!watmath!mks!toolkit 519-884-2251 I have used the Toolkit for a couple of years now and it is the only way I have found to make MSDOS systems acceptable alongside our UNIX machines. I cannot recommend it more highly for this and other similar applications. vi, grep, sed, awk, cpio, ... make DOS applications more of an extension to the UNIX utilities than the other way around. I have no involvement with MK other than as an extremely satisfied user.
rfarris@serene.CTS.COM (Rick Farris) (10/17/88)
In article <394@halley.UUCP| bc@halley.UUCP (Bill Crews) writes: |In article <461@agrigene.UUCP> overby@agrigene.UUCP (Scott Overby) writes: |> |>Is there any software available to compress files in UNIX, transfer it to |>an IBM compatible PC, and uncompress it on the PC? | |Mortice Kern Software, a Canadian company just across the border, has a |software package for DOS called the MKS Toolkit. In the version I have, |it includes a Unix-compatible pack and unpack. I believe the latest version |includes a compatible compress, which should be about as good as you can get |both for degree of compression (Lempel-Ziv) and Unix compatibility. | Another nice feature of the MKS Toolkit is their cpio. It's much more convenient for transferring multiple files between dos and unix/xenix than the doscp programs usually supplied. Doscp (at least Xenix doscp) doesn't support wildcards. So you've got to explicitly bring each file over. It's really nice to use MKS cpio to package up all the files on the dos machine and then cpio them into your Unix box, or vice versa. Rick Farris rfarris@serene.cts.com voice (619) 259-6793 POB M KCBIW public access 259-7757 Del Mar CA 92014 ...!uunet!serene!rfarris serene.uucp 259-3704