Re: UNIX Compressed Files From A PC

[auryn@rtd.com (Don Yuniskis)]

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