I have a situation (submitted by a namesake) where he has a large file on
an HP3000 that he is transferring to a PC platform using FTP.
1) The file transfer takes 3 hours using FTP on a typical Ethernet LAN.
2) The file is a flat ASCII file.
3) He wants to compress it before file transfer and decompress it later.
I suggested using WRQ's Reflection instead since it has an inherent
compression feature. He said he would time it to see if it helps.
He was still curious if there is a program that is compatible on the HP3000
and PCs. I was thinking Lempel-Ziv but I'm not sure if it will work.
If anyone has a solution copy:
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since he's not on the list server quite yet. (Although I told him how).