[comp.archives] [fortran] Re: File compression

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
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