mscompress(1)

mscompress1

Compress data using lz77 algorithm

Usage

mscompress [-h]

mscompress [-V]

mscompress [name ...]

Overview

Mscompress reduces the size of the named files using Lempel-Ziv coding (LZ77). Each input file is compressed to file eding with underscore and original file remains untouched. Output files then can be decompressed using Microsoft EXPAND.EXE utility or msexpand(1). In other words, mscompress(1) is binary compatible with Microsoft's COMPRESS.EXE

Download

mscompress package is available at ftp.penguin.cz/pub/users/mhi/.

Releases

12 releases since Debian 3.0 (Woody); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 3.0–4.0
  2. 5.0–10
  3. 11–13

Bugs

Mscompress cannot compress standard input as gzip(1) or compress(1) do.

Authors

This program is written by Martin Hinner, <[email protected]>
Algorithm & data structures by M. Winterhoff <[email protected]>

From mscompress 0.4-10 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.