gustav@arp.anu.oz.au (Zdzislaw Meglicki) (07/30/90)
Archive-name: f77-compress/24-Jul-90 Original-posting-by: gustav@arp.anu.oz.au (Zdzislaw Meglicki) Original-subject: Re: File compression Archive-site: arp.anu.oz.au [130.56.4.90] Archive-directory: /ARP/compress Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) From article <1990Jul23.213942.7314@agate.berkeley.edu>, by c60c-3dx@WEB.berkeley.edu: > I'd like be able to compress files before transferring them between > a couple computers at my workplace. Unfortunately one of the two machines > does not have a C compiler. Fortran is found on both machines. > Lempel Ziv Welch compression in ANSI F77 can be obtained via anonymous ftp from arp.anu.oz.au (in /ARP/compress). I am still working on it. At the moment it is not quite compatible with UNIX compress, but it will be. It is also a bit too slow, but there is a great scope for improvements. At this stage this is only the first version. And it works! Gustav Meglicki, gustav@arp.anu.oz.au Automated Reasoning Project, RSSS, and Plasma Theory Group, RSPhysS The Australian National University, G.P.O. Box 4, Canberra, A.C.T., 2601, Australia, fax: (Australia)-6-249-0747 tel: (Australia)-6-249-0158