Re: UNIX Compressed Files From A PC

[Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <399839B0.F5A138F7@acm.org>,
  "Marin D. Condic" <mcondic-nospam@acm.org> wrote:

> 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.

Understood. But who is going to have developed such a project, when
there are free alternative algorithms out there that are more efficient
and more commonly used, and don't require the developer to get all
chummy with a lawyer? (shudder)

> 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.... :-(

That'd be my guess too. Good luck.

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