.TH MSCOMPRESS 1 .SH NAME mscompress \- compress data using LZ77 algorithm .SH SYNOPSIS .B mscompress [ .B \-h ] .br .B mscompress [ .B \-V ] .br .B mscompress [ .I "name \&..." ] .SH DESCRIPTION .I Mscompress reduces the size of the named files using Lempel-Ziv coding (LZ77). Each input file is compressed to file eding with underscore and original file remains untouched. Output files then can be decompressed using Microsoft .B EXPAND.EXE utility or msexpand(1). In other words, mscompress(1) is binary compatible with Microsoft's .B COMPRESS.EXE .SH BUGS .B Mscompress cannot compress standard input as gzip(1) or compress(1) do. .SH AUTHORS This program is written by Martin Hinner, .br Algorithm & data structures by M. Winterhoff <100326.2776@compuserve.com> .SH DOWNLOAD mscompress package is available at ftp.penguin.cz/pub/users/mhi/.