OT: compatibility of compress between SCO OS5 & Red Hat Linux

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Confusious (Scott Walker) say:
> I have a filepro key file that I want to transfer between several
> machines running SCO OS5 and Red Hat Linux.  Since the key file is
> large, I would like to use "compress" to condense it's size (on my SCO
> box it takes it from 13mb to about 500kb in size).  I'm just wondering,
> is the "compress/uncompress"  command on SCO compatible with it's
> counterpart on Red Hat.  In other words, can I compress the file on my
> SCO box and successfully uncompress it on a Red Hat box.  How about the
> other way around?

Compress is standard between all same-endian platforms, at a minimum.

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