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.