Daniel Morgan said to Tom Brown in the Fido OS2 Programming conference
on 01-23-1996:

DM>  TB> routines in which I accept a switch which causes compression
DM>  TB> by writing a buffer to disk and then calling ZIP.EXE.  This
DM>  TB> works OK, but the ZIP file directory overhead and system ()
DM>  TB> call overhead seem redundant, now.  Perhaps I'm speaking too
DM>  TB> soon, does IBM have such a compression API?
...
DM> I do not know of a ZIP api.  However, I do know there is C source
DM> code for the LZH (or something like that) compression.

Source code is available for Info ZIP and PKWare advertises a
compression toolkit for OS/2.

    -Jerry

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