From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1ece2318f24b35a7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: James Moe Subject: Re: UNIX Compressed Files From A PC Date: 2000/08/13 Message-ID: <3995E7D2.DEFF8821@rtd.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 657638210 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <3995C90A.E72C055F@acm.org> X-Accept-Language: en,en-GB,es,ru Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: Abuse Role , We Care X-Trace: newshog.newsread.com 966125525 209.210.168.61 (Sat, 12 Aug 2000 20:12:05 EDT) Organization: Sohnen-Moe Associates, Inc MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 20:12:05 EDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-08-13T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: "Marin D. Condic" wrote: > > I'm looking for a package that can access UNIX compressed files and > unpack them for me. I'm in a situation where I've got to read these > files from a WinNT PC and the files will be resident either on the PC or > across the net on a Sun platform. I want to access them as any other > byte stream file - Open/Read/Write/Seek/Close operations are what I > need. Does anybody know of an Ada package that is generally available > that can do this? > Have you looked at GNU's gzip? It de-/compresses unix compressed files as well as its own compression format (which is quite good, much better than ZIP or PKZIP). If you need code, you could get the source.... -- sma at rtd dot com