We are currently resolving a similar issue (FTP of large data files
     between 3000's).  I poked around, and found the LZW utility to work
     very well.  It compressed our data (ASCII, w/ lot of blanks) about
     twice as much as MOVER, and did not lose the file attributes either.
     Since MOVER uses the POSIX naming conventions, when you extract a file
     it also added an ACD to it...I'm not sure if this is bad or not, but
     we are a non-POSIX shop at the moment, and I liked the fact that LZW
     left the file in the same shape that it found it.
 
     Any comments or experience using LZW?  How does the compression
     algorithms compare to GZIP?  I couldn't get the copy of GZIP I
     downloaded to run, so I didn't even try it.
 
     Mike Wanzong
     Project Leader
     California Compensation Insurance Co.
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