Re: UNIX Compressed Files From A PC

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

Don Yuniskis wrote:

> In article <399944F9.57D5B942@acm.org>,
> Marin D. Condic <mcondic-nospam@acm.org> wrote:
> >If you have some information
> >that will help me out here, I'd appreciate it. But the answer has to be
> >some sort of package that does basically what Win32.LZExpand does. If
> >you know of something like this, please pass that info along.
>
> I passed you a URL to the compress(1) sources.  The file is 9KB.
> Almost 2KB of that is the UCB copyright statement, etc.
> Another ~2K is the typical overhead required to write anything
> in C (i.e. all the #includes, etc.).
>
> Another chunk is the command line interface -- something that could be
> reduced to a set of #define-d variables and removed in a matter of
> *minutes* (LITERALLY!!).
>
> I doubt there is 5K of code there that you would have to port.
> It is reasonably clear (assuming you have even a rudimentary
> understanding of C and <stdio.h> -- and has no bizarre or
> undocumented timing/performance criteria that could bite you
> by hiding some critical aspect of the algorith.
>
> The time spent looking for a "drop in" solution could have
> finished this task...  :-(
>
> --don

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