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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!oleane!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!ghost.dsi.unimi.it!sirio.cineca.it!gopher From: telvox.teleinf@bologna.nettuno.it (Roberto M. Russo) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Multiplatform Data Compression for NetBSD (freeware) Date: 12 Jun 1995 09:49:18 GMT Organization: Telvox Teleinformatica Lines: 39 Message-ID: <3rh2iu$dsc@sirio.cineca.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: telvox.nettuno.it X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.91.6 Multiplatform Data Compression (COmpressor DECompressor ver. 3.21) for NetBSD (ver. 1.0 - intel x86 implementation) from Freeware Software Bookshelf of Telvox Software Shop is available at the URL : http://www.nettuno.it/fiera/telvox/telvox.htm to be downloaded freely. CODEC allows : - to compress in one operating system and decompress in another, interfacing the physical format of the file between the same or different environments with regards to file organization, record format, record length and block size. For example, it is possible to compress in NetBSD and to decompress in IBM's MVS; - to execute a highly efficient compression (from 1 to 50 times) by means of proprietary algorithms such as HPBS (High Performance Bit Shrinker); - to create in any platform a file capable of self decompressing in one of the allowed operating systems ( PC / OS2 / *IX / VMS / etc...) by means of advanced self exploding features. Our company has decided that, since NetBSD is freeware our packages will be distributed in freeware mode on that platform. The other CODEC implementations are on proprietary operating systems and they are distributed in shareware mode only. You are athorized to redistribute or post the CODEC package for NetBSD freely since that operating system is freeware. The CODEC package is distributed in self exploding format for NetBSD. Roberto Maria Russo (telvox.teleinf@bologna.nettuno.it)