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From: fred@genesis.demon.co.uk (Lawrence Kirby)
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Subject: Re: Compression Software 
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Date: Fri, 14 May 1993 19:31:56 +0000
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In article <6362@seti.inria.fr> jerome@rodin.inria.fr writes:

>
>Hello 
>
>Did you try gzip, from the GNU distribution ?
>It uses the same algoritm than compress, but the results are quite better
>
>I hope this will be useful
>

gzip does not use the same algorithm as compress. However gunzip will
decompress 'compress'ed files.

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