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: <3996FCBB.3FCAD8F8@netwood.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 657900108 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <3995C90A.E72C055F@acm.org> <3996B1FC.A5892C21@acm.org> <3996DF0F.B35F1BDC@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: > 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;-)