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From: "Tarjei T. Jensen" <tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.com>
Subject: Re: UNIX Compressed Files From A PC
Date: 2000/08/14
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Marin D. Condic wrote
>>From what I've been told, GNU's gzip will not handle Unix ".z" files
>properly. Besides, I am in a situation where I have to solve this
>problem quickly from the perspective of an Ada (or C++) package that
>will do the Open/Read/Write/Seek/Close capabilities I mentioned. If I
>have to glom onto some GNU code and cobble a solution together for
>myself, this will take too much time.

I have used gzip to decompress .Z files for many years (.z is another older
format). As far as I know the gzip API will not allow you to create a .Z file.
You will have to create a .gz file. On the other hand, gzip compresses better
than compress.

Using the compress algorithm to compress may involve getting a license from
Unisys. They have the patent.


Greetings,