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Multiplatform Data Compression for Linux (freeware)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Tue May 9 12:57:39 1995
Date: Tue, 9 May 1995 17:13:58 +0300
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi, linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
X-Mn-Key: announce
From: telvox.teleinf@nettuno.it (telvox teleinformatica)
Subject: Multiplatform Data Compression for Linux (freeware)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Keywords: freeware version of commercial, compression
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Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
Followup-to: comp.os.linux.misc
In our machette we say that a Freeware Software Bookshelf for
Linux operating system is available.
In different ftp sites it is possible to find and download CODEC
ver. 3.21 for Linux. In the future, you will find the last
implementation in that bookshelf. Anybody can download and post
the last version in all the sites he wants.
In a few weeks, on that bookshelf, we will upload the CODEC
version for another freeware operating system : NetBSD.
Best Regards
Roberto Maria Russo
telvox.teleinf@bologna.nettuno.it
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Multiplatform Data Compression (COmpressor DECompressor ver.
3.21) for LINUX (intel x86 implementation ver. 1.1.59) from Free-
ware Software Bookshelf of Telvox Software Shop is available at
the URL :
http://www.nettuno.it/fiera/telvox/telvox.htm
to be downloaded freely.
CODEC allows :
- to compress in one operating system and decompress in
another, interfacing the physical format of the file
between the same or different environments with regards
to file organization, record format, record length and
block size. For example, it is possible to compress in
Linux and to decompress in a IBM's MVS;
- to execute a highly efficient compression (from 1 to
50 times) by means of proprietary algorithms such as
HPBS (High Performance Bit Shrinker);
- to create on Linux (i386) a file capable of self decom-
pressing in one of the allowed operating systems ( PC /
OS2 / *IX / VMS / etc...) by means of advanced self
exploding features.
Our company has decided that, since Linux is freeware our
packages will be distributed in freeware mode on that platform.
The other CODEC implementations are on proprietary operating
systems and they are distributed in shareware mode only.
You are athorized to redistribute or post the CODEC package for
Linux freely since that operating system is freeware.
The CODEC package is distributed in self exploding format for
LINUX.
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