prindle@nadc.ARPA (12/05/86)
I am looking for a high level language (read that "C") implementation which uncompresses files compressed by the CP/M utility CRUNCH 2.3. I've always been impressed by the many, many, implementations of SQ/USQ, all of which read and write the same format files. Unfortunately, this is apparently not the case with this new generation of "Lempel-Zev" compression programs. Neither "COMPRESS" (from PD:<UNIX.FILE-MGMT>), nor "LZW" (from PD:<UNIX.CPM>), will decode this format; add to this the fact that "LZW" seems to be terminally broken when compiled under UNIX. A solution to this problem is not obvious. Alternatively, I would take a formal specification of the format of these "crunched" files and put together such a utility myself. Thanks in advance, Frank Prindle Prindle@NADC.arpa