Re: UNIX Compressed Files From A PC

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

Ted Dennison wrote:
> Apparently the patents do not prohibit uncompression, but I suspect
> you'll have a hard time finding free solutions that just do
> uncompression when there are better non-patented algorithms available
> out there.
> 
Right now, I'd settle for read access only and leave the write access
for a later date. The *primary* mission is to read the data and get it
unpacked on the fly. If I get that far, the rest can wait for another
answer.

BTW: If in fact all of this falls under some kind of patent
restrictions, that is O.K. by me. If someone had a package that did what
I wanted it to do reliably, I'd be willing to pay for it. I've got to
get this solved quickly, so spending a few bucks for someone's DLL (or
whatever!) that provided the calls I need would make me happy.

As it is, it looks like my only real answer is to either cobble someone
else's badly written C code or roll my own. In the interest of
expediency, I'm going to get cracking on that route.... :-(

MDC
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