From: HERBER@fnal.fnal.gov (Randolph J. Herber, CD/DCD/SPG, x2966)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
Subject: Re: Need program with source to compress files
Date: 17 Dec 92 19:13:55 GMT

+From: Matt Healy <matt@wardsgi.med.yale.edu>
+Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
+Subject: Re: Need program with source to compress files
+Date: 16 Dec 92 15:48:59 GMT

+In article <1992Dec16.110110.3038@news.uni-stuttgart.de>,
+wnkretz@ikesg1.energietechnik.uni-stuttgart.de (Oliver Kretzschmar) wrote:
+> 
+> 
+> 
+>     Hey,
+> 
+>     I am looking for a program with source code to compress files.
+>     if possible running on SGI. Could somebody send me informations
+>     about good ones ?
+> 
+>     Thanks for your efforts,
+> 

+The standard Unix utility "compress" comes with most Irix versions
+(type "man compress" for instructions).  Is that what you need?

+Source code for that is probably impossible to get unless you have
+an *expensive* source license; do you really need source?

+Matt Healy
+"I pretend to be a network administrator;
+ the lab net pretends to work"

+matt@wardsgi.med.yale.edu

archie says:

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