From: Warren Toomey <wkt@henry.cs.adfa.oz.au>
Message-Id: <199803252033.HAA03043@henry.cs.adfa.oz.au>
Subject: Re: gzip on PDP-11: not so simple
To: pups@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (PDP Unix Preservation)
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 07:33:46 +1100 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <199803251433.AA22453@world.std.com> from Allison J Parent at "Mar 25, 98 09:33:18 am"
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In article by Allison J Parent:
> I find this situation funny as in the 8080/z80 (8 bit data 64kbyte address 
> space) world there is LZH, Crunch, ARK, ARC, LBR... compressors and 
> decompressors.  Atleast a handful are written in C.
> 
> Also PDP11 address space (no I&D) is 32kW... Instructions are always 
> words so code can eat up a fair portion of the 64k bytes.

Well, I've got uncompress working, but I thought having gunzip would
be good as it gives better compression results.

	Warren