cross-platform compress & decompress

[Mark Brownell]

I have a system that works for me, it's plain text.

This example opens on all platforms and is without cross-platform 
issues:

<mtml noteBook="version 1.0" mtmlVersion="3.0">
   <author>n/a</author>
   <title>Demo Document</title>
   <copyright>n/a</copyright>
   <publisher>www.demotypeX.com</publisher>
   <offSetPage>1</offSetPage>
<docSettings>
61 173 254 201 112 131 124 144 25 151 90 58 97 202 63 89 92 6 195 93 79 
163 159 77 171 228 84 228 [snip]...
</docSettings>
<dictionary>
   <term>Dictionary Information<definition>No dictionary information 
available.</definition></term>
</dictionary>
<indicated>
   <term>Add a term later</term>
</indicated>
</mtml>
<page>
135 157 165 249 203 64 187 98 25 182 92 175 143 130 104 126 204 151 137 
247 154 167 240 68 138 168 134 37 0 10 37 131 113 108 191 14 208 46 170 
95 105 30 110 123 49 72 24 246 129 148 [snip]...
</page>

The snipped sets of numbers are encrypted data that exists between the 
tag sets.

I was just looking for a way to make it smaller.

mb