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mscompress - compress data using LZ77 algorithm
mscompress
[ -h ]
mscompress [ -V ]
mscompress [ name ... ]
Mscompress reduces the size of the named
files using Lempel-Ziv coding (LZ77). Each input file is compressed to
file eding with underscore and original file remains untouched. Output files
then can be decompressed using Microsoft EXPAND.EXE utility or msexpand(1)
.
In other words, mscompress(1)
is binary compatible with Microsoft’s COMPRESS.EXE
Mscompress cannot compress standard input as gzip(1)
or compress(1)
do.
This program is written by Martin Hinner, <mhi@penguin.cz>
Algorithm & data structures by M. Winterhoff <100326.2776@compuserve.com>
mscompress
package is available at ftp.penguin.cz/pub/users/mhi/.
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