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!)