Mscompress

Jul 20, 2023

Microsoft “compress.exe/expand.exe” compatible (de)compressor

Microsoft “compress.exe/expand.exe” compatible decompressor

This package contains two programs

msexpand, which decompress files compressed by Microsoft compress.exe utility e.g. Win 3.x installation files

mscompress, which compress files using LZ77 compression algorithm. Output files can be decompressed using Microsoft expand.exe or msexpand1.



Checkout these related ports:
  • Zutils - Utilities for searching in bzip2, gzip, lzip, and xz archives
  • Zstr - C++ header-only ZLib wrapper
  • Zstd - Fast real-time compression algorithm
  • Zpaqfranz - Swiss army knife for the serious backup manager
  • Zopfli - Zopfli Compression Algorithm
  • Zoo - Manipulate archives of files in compressed form
  • Zlib-ng - Fork of the zlib data compression library
  • Zipper - Tool for inspecting the contents of a compressed archive
  • Zipmix - Produce .ZIP file from two other ones with the best compressed files
  • Zip - Create/update ZIP files compatible with PKZIP
  • Zchunk - Compressed file format that splits the file into independent chunks
  • Xpk - The eXternal PacKer (XPK) library system
  • Xmill - Efficient compressor for XML
  • Xdms - Tool for decompressing Amiga DMS files
  • Xarchiver - Desktop-agnostic GTK frontend to various archiving tools