This is the 'freeze' executable for Linux. It works just like
compress, is much slower and also a lot better. I have been using
it exclusively for a few month now, with no problems.
Compression is usually 20-30% better than compress. Frozen files
have the extension '.F'.

The binary is linked dynamically and requires /lib/libc.2.2.2.
It was compiled with '-O2 -fomit-frame-pointer' and stripped.
Make links to unfreeze, melt and fcat (melt==unfreeze).

If you are interested, get the full distribution & man page.
I think it was posted to comp.sources.unix, or else use archie.

Dirk Steinberg
dirkst@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de