lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) (05/29/90)
In <2156@sauron.Columbia.NCR.COM>, stevem@sauron.Columbia.NCR.COM (Steve McClure) writes: >In article <20470@snow-white.udel.EDU> FAC2863%UOFT01.BITNET@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu (Leon D. Shaner) writes: >| >|I need a Unix style UNCOMPRESS... I have a FF version of COMPRESS, but it >|only includes compressors, no uncompressors.... >| >Try copying compress to uncompress. It worked for me on the compress that was >distributed with uucp1.03. Depending on which compress it is, a line like: compress -d filename might do the trick. -larry -- The raytracer of justice recurses slowly, but it renders exceedingly fine. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
FAC2863%UOFT01.BITNET@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu (Leon D. Shaner) (05/29/90)
I need a Unix style UNCOMPRESS... I have a FF version of COMPRESS, but it only includes compressors, no uncompressors.... Is there a complete package on a Fred Fish FTP site somewhere??? If not, can someone please direct me to any FTP site which has it??? Also, since I can only use BITFTP to FTP, a full pathname would help but is not absolutely necessary.... Thanks in advance... --Leon D. Shaner...
stevem@sauron.Columbia.NCR.COM (Steve McClure) (05/30/90)
In article <20470@snow-white.udel.EDU> FAC2863%UOFT01.BITNET@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu (Leon D. Shaner) writes: | |I need a Unix style UNCOMPRESS... I have a FF version of COMPRESS, but it |only includes compressors, no uncompressors.... | Try copying compress to uncompress. It worked for me on the compress that was distributed with uucp1.03. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve email: Steve.McClure@Columbia.NCR.COM 803-791-7054 The above are my opinions, which NCR doesn't really care about anyway! CAUSER's Amiga BBS! | 803-796-3127 | 8pm-8am 8n1 | 300/1200/2400
dales@teksce.SCE.TEK.COM (Dale Snell) (05/30/90)
[woof!] In article <20470@snow-white.udel.EDU> FAC2863%UOFT01.BITNET@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu (Leon D. Shaner) writes: | |I need a Unix style UNCOMPRESS... I have a FF version of COMPRESS, but it |only includes compressors, no uncompressors.... | To quote the Commodore folks, "It's in there!" Compress *is* the uncompressor. It will vary its behaviour depending on what its name is, or what command line switches it is given. Compress does just what is says. Copy compress to uncompress, and you get the decompressor. Copy compress to zcat and you get a decompressor that goes to stdout instead of a file, for use in pipes. Here's the command line switches: Compress: -c Compress file and send data to stdout, without writing to a file. Nondestructive. -f Force compression, even if file does not shrink, or <filename>.Z already exists. -v Verbose. Print (un)compression stats to stderr. -b Set maximum size of common substring codes, in bits (ranges from 9 to 16). Uncompress: -c Uncompress file and send data to stdout, without writing to a file. Equivalent to zcat. -v Verbose. Same as above. Note that setting bits to 16 will chew up *large* amounts of contiguous ram. You need at least two meg of Fast Ram to use compress at that setting. Setting -b 13 seems to be the largest size that will work reliably in a one megabyte Amiga, in my experience. | |Thanks in advance... | |--Leon D. Shaner... You're welcome. I hope this helps. --dds "Right before your eyes, | Dale D. Snell BIX: ddsnell We pull Laughter from the skies, | Usenet: dales@teksce.SCE.TEK.COM And he laughs until he cries, | C$erve: 74756.666@compuserve.COM Then he dies, then he dies." | Disclaimer: Tektronix buys my -- Emerson, Lake, and Palmer | time and labor, not my opinions.
gilgalad@dip.eecs.umich.edu (Ralph Seguin) (05/30/90)
In article <2156@sauron.Columbia.NCR.COM> stevem@sauron.UUCP (Steve McClure) writes: >|only includes compressors, no uncompressors.... >| >Try copying compress to uncompress. It worked for me on the compress that was >distributed with uucp1.03. >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Steve email: Steve.McClure@Columbia.NCR.COM 803-791-7054 >The above are my opinions, which NCR doesn't really care about anyway! >CAUSER's Amiga BBS! | 803-796-3127 | 8pm-8am 8n1 | 300/1200/2400 The standard command line switch is -d for compress. compress -d filename See ya, Ralph gilgalad@dip.eecs.umich.edu gilgalad@zip.eecs.umich.edu gilgalad@caen.engin.umich.edu Ralph_Seguin@ub.cc.umich.edu gilgalad@sparky.eecs.umich.edu USER6TUN@UMICHUB.BITNET Ralph Seguin | In order to get infinitely many monkeys to type 565 South Zeeb Rd. | something that actually makes sense, you need to Ann Arbor, MI 48103 | have infinitely many monkey editors as well. (313) 662-1506
dick@woodwrk.UUCP (Richard H. Wood, Garland, Texas) (05/31/90)
> >I need a Unix style UNCOMPRESS... I have a FF version of COMPRESS, but it >only includes compressors, no uncompressors.... > >--Leon D. Shaner... compress IS uncompress. On Unix systems, I believe, uncompress is a link to compress. To uncompress file fn, just try: compress -d <fn> The filename can even be specified with or without the .Z suffix. Either way, compress will uncompress it. (I'm using compress from AmigaUUCP1.051D. I assume the Fish one is compatible.) -- d. ___________ _______ Dick Wood// / \ / \ |Become an | {texbell|texsun}!digi!woodwrk!dick| \\ // / \ / \| Organ |{egsner|texbell}!lerami!woodwrk!dick| Amiga\X/oodwork Bench | Donar| dwood@digi.lonestar.org|