From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1ece2318f24b35a7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: auryn@rtd.com (Don Yuniskis) Subject: Re: UNIX Compressed Files From A PC Date: 2000/08/15 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 658680057 References: <3995C90A.E72C055F@acm.org> <3998557B.B45DB5E6@acm.org> <39984E52.F8E3EB6B@netwood.net> <399944F9.57D5B942@acm.org> X-Complaints-To: Abuse Role , We Care X-Trace: newshog.newsread.com 966366748 198.102.68.2 (Tue, 15 Aug 2000 15:12:28 EDT) Organization: none NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 15:12:28 EDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-08-15T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <399944F9.57D5B942@acm.org>, Marin D. Condic 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 -- 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