Date   : Sat, 03 Nov 1990 01:56:45 GMT
From   : swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!dali.cs.montana.edu!ogicse!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tektronix!nosun!techbook!fzsitvay@ucsd.edu (Frank Zsitvay)
Subject: CP/M- and MSDOS-compatible file-crunching?

In article <4488.9010311817@np1a.bristol.ac.uk> andmp@np1a.bristol.ac.uk
(D M Pickles) writes:
>Does anyone know of a Crunching/Squeezing/Zipping-type method of
>compressing ascii files, that would work under CP/M as well as either
>MSDOS or UNIX?  If so, is the relevant software available in the
>public domain?  The reason for my inquiry is that I have an occasional
>need for transferring textfiles created on my Amstrad CP/M machine at
>home, on 3-inch (*not* 3.5-inch!)  diskettes, to an IBM-PC machine at
>work.  I achieve this via modem+kermit to the University mainframe, at
>300 baud, which which takes forever and costs lots.  (I subsequently
>download from the mainframe to a PC, at 9600 baud, which is fast and
>free, so that step is trivial).  Any way of reducing the file size for
>the modem transfer would obviously be very beneficial!  My only other
>options are to buy expensive auxillary hardware and transport disks to
>and from work, or to take up weight-training and carry one of the
>computers instead...
>
   there is a version of arc for both machines, that will build and
dismember archives.   the cp/m version is kinda slow, but at least
it does work.
 
   if you don't need to batch files together, there is a verison of
crunch/uncrunch for msdos, but it's kinda hard to find.
 
   hope that helps...
 

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