16-bit compress for 286 XENIX ?

[sralston]

I have a friend (really) who cannot uncompress files under XENIX/286
(version 2.2.1, I believe).  These file were compressed using 16-bit
compression under XENIX/386 (2.3.1).  He can uncompress files that were
compressed with 12-bit compression.  He can compile compress for 16-bits
using -DBITS=16, but whenever he tries to compress files the compression
percent comes out negative and compress leaves the original file alone.

Can anybody tell me why 16-bit compress does not work on XENIX/286?

Many thanks in advance.
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