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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd From: fred@genesis.demon.co.uk (Lawrence Kirby) Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!nott!bnrgate!bnr.co.uk!demon!genesis.demon.co.uk!fred Subject: Re: Compression Software Distribution: world References: <6362@seti.inria.fr> Organization: BT X-Newsreader: Simple NEWS 1.90 (ka9q DIS 1.21) Lines: 18 Date: Fri, 14 May 1993 19:31:56 +0000 Message-ID: <737407916snz@genesis.demon.co.uk> Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk In article <6362@seti.inria.fr> jerome@rodin.inria.fr writes: > >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 > gzip does not use the same algorithm as compress. However gunzip will decompress 'compress'ed files. ----------------------------------------- Lawrence Kirby | fred@genesis.demon.co.uk Wilts, England | 70734.126@compuserve.com -----------------------------------------