Re: UNIX Compressed Files From A PC

["E. Robert Tisdale" <edwin@netwood.net>]

"Marin D. Condic" wrote:

> A) Please point me at the Simtel archives
> in the event that there is maybe something useful there.

    http://www.simtel.net/simtel.net/

    http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/

> 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 <filename>"
> at the Unix command line.  Where's the sport in that? :-)

UNIX?  I thought that you were doing this in Windows.
What about using a UNIX pipe?

> 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.)

You can get the source for the GNU versions of compress and uncompress.

> 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.