Michele Conant writes:
>      Is there any HP3000 'zip type' utility that is compatible with pkzip
>      on the PC?

and Chris Bartram responds:
> In the shell, gzip will compress, and gzip -d will decompress.
> Haven't done any interoperability tests, but it's worth a try.

Good call! I couldn't find a man page for gzip on an MPE/iX 5.0 system,
but HP-UX says, in part:

        The default extension is -gz for VMS, z for MSDOS, OS/2 FAT,
        Windows NT FAT and Atari.

Sounds like it has a chance!

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