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: "E. Robert Tisdale" Subject: Re: UNIX Compressed Files From A PC Date: 2000/08/13 Message-ID: <3996A9CD.A9EF115@netwood.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 657792229 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <3995C90A.E72C055F@acm.org> <3996B1FC.A5892C21@acm.org> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-08-13T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: "Marin D. Condic" wrote: > Let me clarify. I want a package, as in "Ada package", > that I can compile and link to > which does Open/Read/Write/Seek/Close for compressed files. > I could use a C++ class - > possibly an extension of the MFC "CFile" class - > that would do the same. Are you sure that this is the correct approach? Wouldn't you be better off to download a copy of the `compress' and `uncompress' programs for Windows from the Simtel archives and make Win32 system calls from your Ada program to execute uncompress and leave the uncompressed data in a file that you can open and read normally?