Re: UNIX Compressed Files From A PC

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

"Marin D. Condic" wrote:

> Yeah. That's a problem.
> The difficulty with cobbling something together
> from someone else's code for a complicated algorithm like this is that
> by the time you've figured out how it works well enough to make
> the modifications you need, you might just as well have rolled your own.
> You'd be sure to get what you wanted from it
> and, from what I've seen of some of the C sources available to do this,
> I'd end up with something much more readily understood and maintained.
>
> Unless someone can point me at a package that provides the ops I need,
> I think I'm going to get stuck rolling my own. Pity. :-(

I suspect that you've been sent on a fool's errand.
The right way to do this is to write a UNIX shell script
which pipes the output from uncompress to a remote process on the NT
which filters the  uncompressed data then pipes it back to compress on UNIX.
I think you could do the whole thing with a single UNIX command
on two or three lines in the shell script.
Anyway, it's just the sort of assignment that an old UNIX programmer
with a sick sense of humor would give to a cocky young Windows programmer
to teach him a little something about UNIX and, of course, humility;-)