cenkl@butterfly.rutgers.edu (Michal W. Cenkl) (03/20/88)
I compiled the Unix version of compress under VMS 4.6 using VAXC.
Compress (which does buffer character IO) seemed to work fine with the
exception that applications not written in Unix C complained about the
format of files which where compressed and then subsequently
uncompressed. Most notably the editor complained that such files did
not have the standard text file format... this makes some sense in
light of the fact that dir/full shows the original file and its
uncompressed brother to have different sizes (the original is always
the larger). However, all of the information that I would care about
is in the file!
Has anybody succesfully ported LZW compression to VMS?
Any help would be appreciated. As you may have guessed I'm not
terribly adept at VMSisms.
Thanks,
-mike {cenkl@paul.rutgers.edu, ...!rutgers!paul!cenkl}hildum@iris.ucdavis.edu (Eric Hildum) (03/22/88)
If you are doing some programming work already, why not use the compress utility routines that VMS supplies? Eric dehildum@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu (Internet) dehildum@ucdavis.bitnet (BITNET) ucbvax!ucdavis!dehildum (uucp)