GNU Compress 4.0.1 for Windows NT(tm)

The following changes were made :

  o	The default for the -i flag used to be to translate LF's
	to CRLF's.  This would ruin things like tar files if you forgot
	the -i.  I changed compress such that the default is now -i.

	You can use -t to get the LF-translating behavior (very destructive
	to binary files).  The only penalty for forgetting the -t on
	a text file that came from UNIX is that there will be no CR's
	in the output.  You can : 
		recompress (without -t) and then decompress with -t
	     or fix it with an editor by substituting CRLF for LF

  o	This version is compiled with long-name support.  That is,
	it is not limited to the 8+3 filename structure of MS-DOS
	FAT volumes.  While extremely useful for NTFS volumes, no
	attempt was made to munge names for FAT and HPFS volumes.
	NT does do some name mapping internally, but the .Z extension
	is often mangled/deleted.

  o	Note that the name compress.exe conflicts with the name of the
	MicroSoft-supplied program `compress.exe'.  I have been using
	the name compres.exe for this program to avoid the conflict.

  o	You can copy the program compres.exe to uncompress.exe and
	zcat.exe to get those functions.  To save disk space, you
	can skip these copies and use the following equivalencies
	instead :
		uncompress == compress -d
		zcat == compress -c -d
	You may want/need to add the -t flag to these commands.

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