[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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