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From: "Tarjei T. Jensen" <tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.com>
Subject: Re: UNIX Compressed Files From A PC
Date: 2000/08/18
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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,