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: <3996C305.338F5769@netwood.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 657822604 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <3995C90A.E72C055F@acm.org> <3996B1FC.A5892C21@acm.org> <3996A9CD.A9EF115@netwood.net> <3996BB8D.1CD77C10@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: > 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 " > 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.