data-compression in a pipe

[Jan-Piet Mens]

km11hs at sbuvax.rz.uni-sb.de (Dieter Becker) writes:

>I am looking for a text-compression program, which works in a pipe
>I want to use this in a shell-script like:
>    tar cvf - xyz | "*compression*" | rcp xxxx
>Do You know a PD-source / program? 

	How about
	  tar cf - xyz | compress | rcp xxx

	using compress(1)
>Thanks 
	Welcome!
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