::> Hi Herb,

Hi Holger. Sorry if my reply is late...I'm heavily into coursework at college 
and I'm not as young as I used to be :)

::> The other day I was reading the text files in the ULP zip's and
::> came across this statement in the ULP2_228 readme.1st;

::> There is currently no OS/2 compile so if you are using ULP/2 and
::> want to upgrade, you are going to need to switch to the DOS version.

::> To my knowledge ULP2 v2.28b dated Feb. 8 2000 is a 32-bit OS/2 version
::> which is also confirmed within the EXE file itself and also in the log.

That's possible. I may have had trouble compiling the OS/2 version, and the 
later "b" version got it to compile correctly. ULP's lifecycle is
now one of 
support only. I don't think I could compile it again if I wanted to--no OS/2 
available anymore, or time.  I'll do what I can to answer questions though.


::> The real reason to start digging into ULP is that I have found that
::> for example the NODEDIFF file becomes about 1 kb larger when compressed
::> by ULP than it is on arrival as are most uploaded files.

Most likely it's the Zip Comment added when the archive is processed. Did you 
try it without comment added?

::> PKZIP v2.50 for OS/2. The compressed nodediff becomes maybe 20 bytes
::> smaller with PKZIP than with ZIP but OTOH I don't know what parameters
::> I should use in ULP2.CFG for that program. Any ideas?

There ya got me. If they are using that gawd-awful expanded commandline 
parameters, you may have trouble because they may not all fit. The help that 
is available in ULPSM may give you an idea what parameters to look for and 
pass to pkz250/2.


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