DSCOPY has a compress option.  Have you tried it?

                -----Original Message-----
                From:   FONTAIC [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
                Sent:   Friday, July 24, 1998 10:41 PM
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                Subject:        Syntax for LZW

                I need to DSCOPY some huge files from one HP3000 to another.
In order to
                reduce the time it takes to transmit the file I am trying to
compress the file
                first using LZW from Telamon.  The help for using this
utility wasn't all that
                clear to me.

                I (think) was able to compress the files by:

                LZW "-s bigfile -f tinyfile"

                I have been unable to decompress tinyfile back into bigfile.
Does anyone know
                the proper syntax?  Is this utility year 2000 compliant?
What's the deal with
                the strange parameter passing (i.e. I couldn't RUN
LZW;INFO="-s bigfile -f
                tinyfile")?

                Charlie Fontaine
                Aetna US Healthcare (I hope I'm spelling the name right!)