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: "Marin D. Condic" Subject: Re: UNIX Compressed Files From A PC Date: 2000/08/13 Message-ID: <3996BB8D.1CD77C10@acm.org>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 657796250 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <3995C90A.E72C055F@acm.org> <3996B1FC.A5892C21@acm.org> <3996A9CD.A9EF115@netwood.net> Organization: Quadrus Corporation X-Sender: "Marin D. Condic" (Unverified) X-Server-Date: 13 Aug 2000 15:16:08 GMT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-08-13T15:16:08+00:00 List-Id: E. Robert Tisdale wrote: > 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? A) Please point me at the Simtel archives in the event that there is maybe something useful there. B) I can't change the requirements. The file is not to be uncompressed into a regular old file sitting on a disk that I can easily read with plain vanilla I/O. That would be too easy. Hell, I could have done that by typing "uncompress " at the Unix command line. Where's the sport in that? :-) For what they're paying me to do this, they could have bought a dozen 100gigabyte drives and just left the data uncompressed. Disks are cheap. Engineers cost money. Go figure. (If it helps you understand it, know that this is a job for the government.) I really have to do Open/Read/Write/Seek/Close - just like in the LZExpand package in the Win32Ada binding. Sorry. That's the requirement. Wish I didn't have to mess with this, but there you have it. Life is hard, and *then* you die! If you can direct me to something that will meet that requirement, I'd appreciate it. Thanks. MDC -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic - Quadrus Corporation - http://www.quadruscorp.com/ Send Replies To: m c o n d i c @ q u a d r u s c o r p . c o m Visit my web site at: http://www.mcondic.com/ "Take away the punchbowl just when the party gets going" -- William McChesney Martin, Former Fed chairman, explaining what a sound central bank must always do. ======================================================================