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Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 10:42:07 -0400
From: Tim Prince <n8tm AT aol DOT com>
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Subject: Re: compress / ncompress package for Cygwin
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On 08/23/2013 10:11 AM, Hubert Garavel wrote:
>
> Contrary to most Unix-like operating systems, Cygwin does not have
> the /bin/compress command installed by default and has no package
> to install it on demand. Cygwin has an uncompress command (that relies
> on gunzip), but no compress command to make genuine .Z files.
>
> This would be certainly easy to solve, using the work of the Ncompress
> project at http://ncompress.sourceforge.net/
>
> My experience is that the code of ncompress-4.2.4.4 compiled perfectly
> using a GCC 3 cross-compiler targeted to Mingw:
>     $CC_WIN32-gcc -DDOS -D_IBMR2 compress42.c -o compress.exe
>
> It is likely that compiling with Cygwin would be even easier.
>
Interesting reading about how compress returned to public domain 9 years 
ago after being restricted in in various ways for 20 years (and there 
remain some hidden restrictions).  I think it's an exaggeration to say 
most unix-like systems ignored those restrictions.

-- 
Tim Prince


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