I've used SQUISHER, MOVER and QUARK.  Though, QUARK.NMPRV.CSLXL seems to be
move MPE friendly.

ZIP and UNZIP can also be used via POSIX.  Though, I've never been able to
have much success calling it from within MPE batch processes.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Schmidt [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2000 7:23 AM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      File Compression
>
> Folks,
>
> three short questions:
>
>
> (1) who uses SQUISHER to compress files ?
>
> (2) Is SQUISHER a common tool for file compression ?
>
> (3) Is file compression at all "state-of-the-art" on HP3000 ?
>
>
> I do not have any experience in file compression for HP3000 and I'm still
> not
> convinced that this is a method I'd like to have on "my" systems.
>
> You may answer privately as well.
>
> Thanks, Andreas Schmidt, CSC, Germany