GZIP is usally on the hp platforms. It is tried and trusted.
Its easy, it works and it is fast for large files
Stephen  Johnson

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>From:  Genute, Thomas[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent:  Monday, July 27, 1998 6:31 AM
>To:    [log in to unmask]
>Subject:       Re: [HP3000-L] Syntax for LZW
>
>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
>                To:     [log in to unmask]
>                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!)
>