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

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

Scott Walker propounded (on Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 01:25:25PM -0400):
| 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?

Yes, providing you do NOT use SCO's -H flag for the compress command.

But frankly, I'd not use compress nowadays for this sort of thing.  Gzip
will (most probably) condense your file even more than compress, and
bzip2 will (most probably) shrink the input even further.

-- 
JP