ppcompress095

Short:        CLI utilities for powerpacker
Architecture: m68k-amigaos

This archive contains PPCompress, a CLI utility similar in operation
to Unix compress(1), but using the powerpacker.library by Nico
Francois (not included).  PPCompress requires v35 or higher of
powerpacker.library, and v37 or higher of the Amiga OS (v36 might
work).  PPCompress can also behave like Unix uncompress(1) and
zcat(1), provided that you make a filesystem link from 'ppuncompress'
and 'ppcat' to the  program 'ppcompress' with the following commands:

c:makelink ppuncompress ppcompress
c:makelink ppcat ppcompress

I wrote these utilities because I often need to compress files on my
hard drive, but don't want to abandon the shell to run PowerPacker.
LhA, while  an excellent compressor, is quite more difficult to use
with, for  example, a whole directory of files I want compressed
separately, and compress's Lempel-Ziz compression just isn't as good
or as fast as powerpacker's.  All three programs, of course, allow
operation on multiple programs in  a single invocation.

PPCompress supports both the efficiency and buffer-size options of
powerpacker.  It only compresses data files; the PowerPacker load-file
compression is not implemented in powerpacker.library.

PowerPacker.library is  probably available from wherever you got this,
if you don't have it already.