NAME¶
mscompress - compress data using LZ77 algorithm
SYNOPSIS¶
mscompress [
-h ]
mscompress [
-V ]
mscompress [
name ... ]
DESCRIPTION¶
Mscompress reduces the size of the named files using Lempel-Ziv coding
(LZ77). Each input file is compressed to file eding with underscore and
original file remains untouched. Output files then can be decompressed using
Microsoft
EXPAND.EXE utility or
msexpand(1). In other words,
mscompress(1) is binary compatible with Microsoft's
COMPRESS.EXE
BUGS¶
Mscompress cannot compress standard input as
gzip(1) or
compress(1) do.
AUTHORS¶
This program is written by Martin Hinner, <mhi@penguin.cz>
Algorithm & data structures by M. Winterhoff
<100326.2776@compuserve.com>
DOWNLOAD¶
mscompress package is available at ftp.penguin.cz/pub/users/mhi/.