Re: UNIX Compressed Files From A PC

["Marin D. Condic" <mcondic-nospam@acm.org>]

James Moe wrote:
>     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....
> 
From what I've been told, GNU's gzip will not handle Unix ".z" files
properly. Besides, I am in a situation where I have to solve this
problem quickly from the perspective of an Ada (or C++) package that
will do the Open/Read/Write/Seek/Close capabilities I mentioned. If I
have to glom onto some GNU code and cobble a solution together for
myself, this will take too much time. I've encountered some incredibly
badly written C code (why does that not surprise me?) that successfully
decompresses the files. The only problem is that it doesn't provide the
capabilities I need (if you give it a file it will decompress it for you
into another file - could have done that from the command line already.)
Because its so badly written and obfuscated, it could take weeks to
butcher it into something that would do the 5 functions I mentioned.

Thanks for the info. If you know of something a little closer to my
requirements, please pass that along.

MDC
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