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

[Dennis Malen]

I just got back from a business trip and saw this post.

My understanding from Ken Brody is that if the key or data was created with 
an intel machine then fine (whether compressed or not). If data or key was 
created on different machines then the endian problem is real and you must 
use FPTransfer.

Hopefully Ken can clarify this again.

Dennis Malen
516.479.5912
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Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 1:34 PM
Subject: Re: OT: compatibility of compress between SCO OS5 & Red Hat Linux


> 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.
>
> mark->
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