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From: SJKAPUR@ccmail.sunysb.EDU (Sanjay Kapur)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Compress for VAX/VMS
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Date: 4 Jul 88 16:28:00 GMT
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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