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COMPRESS is a data compression routine for text files. While only it
handles one file at a time, it is faster and compresses better than ARC51.
The following table is the result of a test in which the source to the
COMPRESS program was both ARC'd and compressed. The size of the original
file is 54754 bytes.
Program : time to compress : size of compressed file
----------------------------------------------------------
arc : 24 seconds : 24189
compress : 12 seconds : 22297
In addition to the above virtues, this routine comes with source and
it works not only under MSDOS, but under VMS and various UNIX machines as
well. For more information see the documentation file "compress.man" and
the comments within the source file.
Should you wish to contribute, it should be to the authors listed
in the source file (compress.c).
The contents of the disk are:
54754 11/11/87 23:44:50 - compress.c
19945 11/11/87 23:50:46 - compress.exe (13 bit version)
8074 7/21/87 20:24:16 - compress.man
1147 11/12/87 0:00:54 - read.me