Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!CCMAIL.SUNYSB.EDU!SJKAPUR From: SJKAPUR@CCMAIL.SUNYSB.EDU (Sanjay Kapur) Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: Compress for VAX/VMS Message-ID: <8807070507.AA14075@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 4 Jul 88 16:28:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 17 A UNIX compatible compress is available on any of the recent VAX SIG tapes. It is called LZW for Lempel-Zwi(Sp?) compression. I have successfully used it to compress all types of VMS files. It preserves all the VMS file attributes by default but can also make files for export to a Unix system. The VAX SIG tapes have quite a few items compressed with this method. Sanjay Kapur VAX Systems Staff. State University of New York at Stony Brook, NY 11794. skapur@sbccmail.bitnet skapur@ccmail.sunysb.edu