75046.606@CompuServe.COM (Larry W. Virden) (01/04/90)
I am in search of a more current version of compress. The version that I have is circa 1985/6 - the RCS info says v 4.0, 85/07/30 and the SccsId says v1.13, 12/16/86. I know that in a recent trade mag someone was reviewing Saber C and discussed debugging compress with it - and finding a few things that could be changed to make the code a bit more portable, etc. I also know that with the version of compress that I have, I occasionally lose files if I happen to compile it under a System V environment and compress a file which has 13 or 14 characters - the .Z is lost and the program deletes the compressed file at the end of the processing... Anyone know of any fixes to these and other bugs?
brnstnd@stealth.acf.nyu.edu (01/07/90)
You could pick up my squeeze program, available from comp.sources.unix any day now. squeeze uses Miller-Wegman coding, which produces somewhat better results than Ziv-Lempel coding. (Write to rsalz@uunet.uu.net if squeeze doesn't appear soon.) ---Dan