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From: telvox.teleinf@bologna.nettuno.it (Roberto M. Russo)
Subject: Multiplatform Data Compression for FreeBSD (freeware)
Approved: pds@freefall.cdrom.com
Sender: peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Telvox Teleinformatica
Message-ID: <DA52Fo.3Cv@bonkers.taronga.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 1995 09:55:17 GMT
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Multiplatform Data Compression (COmpressor DECompressor ver.
3.21) for FreeBSD (ver. 2.0 - intel x86 implementation) from
Freeware Software Bookshelf of Telvox Software Shop is available
at the URL :
http://www.nettuno.it/fiera/telvox/telvox.htm
to be downloaded freely.
CODEC allows :
- to compress in one operating system and decompress in another,
interfacing the physical format of the file between the same or
different environments with regards to file organization,
record format, record length and block size. For example, it is
possible to compress in FreeBSD and to decompress in IBM's MVS;
- to execute a highly efficient compression (from 1 to 50 times)
by means of proprietary algorithms such as HPBS (High
Performance Bit Shrinker);
- to create in any platform a file capable of self decompressing
in one of the allowed operating systems ( PC / OS2 / *IX / VMS
/ etc...) by means of advanced self exploding features.
Our company has decided that, since FreeBSD is freeware our
packages will be distributed in freeware mode on that platform.
The other CODEC implementations are on proprietary operating
systems and they are distributed in shareware mode only.
You are athorized to redistribute or post the CODEC package for
FreeBSD freely since that operating system is freeware.
The CODEC package is distributed in self exploding format for
FreeBSD.
Roberto Maria Russo
(telvox.teleinf@bologna.nettuno.it)
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