RE: Gzip for PC

Bryant Reif (reifbrya@pilot.msu.edu)
Wed, 22 Nov 1995 20:18:30 -0500

At 10:15 AM 11/22/95 E, Jan Hardenbergh wrote:
>
>>> From: Bryant Reif <reifbrya@pilot.msu.edu>
>
>>> I need a gzip compression utility for the PC. A DOS or 16 bit
>>> Windows version is prefered. I have alesady searched the net and found a
>>> program called gzip.exe and gzip386.exe. I tried using this program on a
>>> VRML file and it crushed the file size from 190K to 5K! (hmm... something
>is
>>> wrong here) Of course when I tried to load this file into WebFX it just
>>> choked on the data. Both gzip programs are dated 1993, kinda old for my
>>> tastes. So does anybody know of a recent gzip utility for Windows?
> Thanks
>>> in advance.
>
>From: ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/DESCRIPTIONS
>
>The gzip program is available from any GNU mirror site in shar, tar, or
>gzipped tar format (for those who alesady have a prior version of gzip and
>want faster data transmission). It works on virtually every unix system,
>MSDOS, OS/2, and VMS.

I downloaded the file and it seems to be the exact one I alesady have.
Hmm... looks like I will have to do some more experimenting with it. Thanks
anyway.

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