RE: Gzip for PC

Jan Hardenbergh ([email protected])
Wed, 22 Nov 95 10:15:00 E


>> From: Bryant Reif <[email protected]>

>> 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.

See also: ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/GETTING.GNU.SOFTWARE

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