We had a pretty active CP/M community in the 80's when the C128 was released. Most of the time I spent in CP/M mode was either running Turbo Pascal or MEX ( the Modem EXecutive ... a telecommunications program. ) We had some CP/M bulletin board systems in the area with downloadable software and source code. This was where I first used archivers such as Gary Novosielski's LU / Library Utilty ... which was kind of like tar. It stored archives in files ending in the extension ".LBR". Versions of ARC were also used at the time. There were stand-alone versions of LZW and Huffman compressors ( Crunch and Squeeze, respectively ) which were often used in conjunction with LU in the same manner that gzip is often used with tar archives.

The posted article mentions how slow C128 CP/M when compared to comparable machines, but I really didn't notice. It ran quickly enough for my needs.