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From: Gautier <gautier.demontmollin@maths.unine.ch>
Subject: Re: UNIX Compressed Files From A PC
Date: 2000/08/14
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Marin D. Condic:

> I'm looking for a package that can access UNIX compressed files and
> unpack them for me. I'm in a situation where I've got to read these
> files from a WinNT PC and the files will be resident either on the PC or
> across the net on a Sun platform. I want to access them as any other
> byte stream file - Open/Read/Write/Seek/Close operations are what I
> need. Does anybody know of an Ada package that is generally available
> that can do this?

1st solution: (re-)compress your files with 'zip' that exist on all
              platforms: http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/ ,

    then use my Unzip.Streams package - link below. It has Open/Read/Close,
    Seek can be easily added, but Write is a nonsense for compressed files...

2nd solution: adapt the C code for .Z files by customizing 
              Unzip.Streams. But I guess it would take big
              time * person resources...

HTH
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