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From: jerome@rodin.inria.fr (Jerome Sabalot)
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Subject: Re: Compression Software
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Date: 12 May 93 08:10:36 GMT
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Hello 

Did you try gzip, from the GNU distribution ?
It uses the same algoritm than compress, but the results are quite better

I hope this will be useful

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				J. SABALOT       
                                                 
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