From: "Tarjei T. Jensen" <tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.com>
Subject: Re: UNIX Compressed Files From A PC
Date: 2000/08/18
Date: 2000-08-18T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8nitqp$s5q8@news.kvaerner.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8ngto9$tge$1@nnrp1.deja.com
Ted Dennison wrote:
>No. As I mentioned previously, you'll have a tough time finding free
>solutions to his problem. Zlib can not decompress files compressed with
>the Unix "compress" command. Zlib is meant to be Free (capital F), and
>thus does not mess with patented algorithms. It is built around
>providing support for gzip (.gz) compression. It can also deal with .zip
>files with a bit of work, I believe.
I don't think this is true since gzip decompresses .Z ("compress") files.
Decompression have never been an issue, but compression is. Otherwise netscape
and Micosoft would have had to pay licenses for their browsers.
Greetings,
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Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-08-12 0:00 UNIX Compressed Files From A PC Marin D. Condic
2000-08-13 0:00 ` James Moe
2000-08-13 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-08-14 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-08-14 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-08-14 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-08-13 0:00 ` Don Yuniskis
2000-08-13 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-08-13 0:00 ` Don Yuniskis
2000-08-13 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-08-13 0:00 ` Don Yuniskis
2000-08-13 0:00 ` E. Robert Tisdale
2000-08-14 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-08-13 0:00 ` E. Robert Tisdale
2000-08-13 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-08-13 0:00 ` E. Robert Tisdale
2000-08-13 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-08-13 0:00 ` E. Robert Tisdale
2000-08-14 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-08-17 0:00 ` Thomas Quinot
2000-08-17 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-08-17 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2000-08-17 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-08-18 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen [this message]
2000-08-18 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
2000-08-14 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-08-14 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-08-14 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-08-14 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-08-14 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-08-14 0:00 ` E. Robert Tisdale
2000-08-14 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-08-14 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
2000-08-15 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-08-15 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-08-15 0:00 ` E. Robert Tisdale
2000-08-15 0:00 ` Don Yuniskis
2000-08-15 0:00 ` E. Robert Tisdale
2000-08-15 0:00 ` Bill Dale
2000-08-15 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-08-16 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-08-18 0:00 ` Stefan Skoglund
2000-08-18 0:00 ` Stefan Skoglund
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