Steve writes wrt compression on MPE:
>Try compress/uncompress in the MPE/iX shell.
>For the slightly more exotic, get gzip from http://jazz.external.hp.com
>to run on your HP3000 and get the unix version on your _other_
>machines.
I highly recommend gzip. It understands 'compress' format and can
decompress traditional .Z files. It's compression is better than that
seen with compress. I typically convert everything I store to .gz
format.