X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:date:from:to:subject:message-id:reply-to :references:mime-version:content-type:in-reply-to; q=dns; s= default; b=AnIHo5LbPoi+wMvgDhx/QLkiT9ACDBGrJBbdm/0QHaijD/5lpVxAQ XcKeexkCLthb5FHAy6fnfYluxCtNYbuu/s+Dc8VHs8X6Fdr3yXO9WRb573DcRKeq wgpB/nt96g0SLWEwN6KJU3blDxgymATVCtpxpCQxeQF+t3vIQypEPY= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:date:from:to:subject:message-id:reply-to :references:mime-version:content-type:in-reply-to; s=default; bh=3BDd1LWPQYvj1iDTVvL5puPrndo=; b=SKfwjIHHM0jLRCI12QiVdwRBU4pa MM3pJupR8nqB/g8iIj7DTrCh5+erUD4FpmF6f9jnwBj/yyeaVnchHwo4ZGvLsiks mHmOp9khg+GSM3MFAS9iV9cUReCiyMEdx2KCN0z18hmnB0Qli+TYfe37M18ClEqL TgjBOi7cWGfDk10= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-Mail-Handler: Dyn Standard SMTP by Dyn X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse AT dyndns DOT com (see http://www.dyndns.com/services/sendlabs/outbound_abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: U2FsdGVkX18z0p9XWBgtN5QSX+A7a0JZ Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 15:23:11 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: compress / ncompress package for Cygwin Message-ID: <20130823192311.GB3454@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <52176D9A DOT 3000602 AT inria DOT fr> <20130823150903 DOT GY2562 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <1377278629 DOT 8072 DOT 4 DOT camel AT YAAKOV04> <20130823181340 DOT GC2562 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130823181340.GC2562@calimero.vinschen.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 08:13:40PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Aug 23 12:23, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: >> On Fri, 2013-08-23 at 17:09 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> >> > On Aug 23 16:11, 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/ >> > >> > Why not, but "somebody" (you?) will have to create and maintain the >> > 32 and 64 bit packages as the official Cygwin package maintainer. >> >> http://cygwin-ports.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=cygwin-ports/ncompress > >Assuming that you're willing to provide this package in the main distro... > >> Note that on Fedora, uncompress is provided by ncompress, not gzip, >> although that is not mandatory. > >...it would probably make a lot of sense to move uncompress from >gzip to ncompress. > >Chris, as gzip maintainer, do you have any problem with that? Nope. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple