gzip on PDP-11: not so simple

[Warren Toomey]

In article by Robin Birch:

	[ not being able to run gzip on a PDP-11 ]
> This would be slow but
> what are we after?, an all singing all dancing system or something that
> would work in the background whilst we get a beer and wait for the
> system to install?.

You're right I think. At least compress -b12 works, and as you say, a bit
of extra wait isn't going to hurt too much.

Peter Chubb seems interested in fitting gunzip into 64K. I'll see how he
goes with it.

Thanks all for your comments,

	Warren

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