Re: UNIX Compressed Files From A PC

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

E. Robert Tisdale wrote:
> UNIX?  I thought that you were doing this in Windows.
> What about using a UNIX pipe?
> 
One more time. With feeling. :-) The program runs on a WinNT box. It
must open the file which (maybe) lives on a UNIX box somewhere down at
the other end of the hose. I've got to use the facilities that are on
the WinNT box because that's where I run and I may have to open the file
almost anywhere - including the WinNT box. Its a UNIX compressed file. I
can't count on UNIX to uncompress it for me. I've got to do the
decompression myself. I can't decompress the file and write it to
another file on a disk somewhere and then read it with plain, vanilla
I/O. Hence, I need a subroutine library that will perform the functions
I've outlined in previous posts.

> 
> You can get the source for the GNU versions of compress and uncompress.
> 
Bzzzzzzzzzt! Wrong answer. Check prior posts. Even if the GNU stuff
would work, it's only going to do what I could have done by typing
"uncompress <filename>" at the Unix command line or done with PKZip or
Winzip or a thousand other utilities. See below:

> > I really have to do Open/Read/Write/Seek/Close -
      ^^^^^^
      |||||| And I'm NOT kidding!

I don't have time to sort through someone elses LZW algorithm, modify it
to have functions described above, debug it, etc. If I had time to do
that, I'd go get a book that described the thing itself and run off and
built my own. I'd probably do a better job of writing what I need than
I'd get by cobbling something together out of GNU code, etc. What I'm
hoping to find is an "off-the-shelf" answer that I can plug into the
code I've got, declare victory, collect my check and move on to
something a little less silly. If you know of a package that will do
what I've described, this would be helpful.

MDC
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