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

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2005, Fairlight wrote:
>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.

Not true.  On current SuSE Linux distributions, compress is a shell scrpt
that doesn't compress, but suggest one use gzip instead.

I would use gzip.

Bill
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