[Info-vax] quasijarus

Arne Vajhøj arne at vajhoej.dk
Tue Aug 4 23:08:06 EDT 2009


Steven Schweda wrote:
>> (note that the VMS utility LZWCMP is not compatible).
> 
> I found a reference to "lzcomp.exe", which claimed that it was
> "compress for Vax/VMS".  I didn't find any "LZWCMP".

It could have LZCOMP and not LZWCMP.

It was on the DECUS Tapes back in late 1980's. I believe
it was written by Martin Minow.

It used LZW compression, but also stored VMS file
attributes and was not Unix compress compatible.

Arne





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