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- From: leichter@lrw.com (Jerry Leichter)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: RE: Decomp' UNIX compress files on VAX?
- Message-ID: <9212241424.AA11309@uu3.psi.com>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 13:12:46 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
- Distribution: world
- Organization: The Internet
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- I need to get some files that were compressed with UNIX's compress
- utility onto my vax for processing by PV-WAVE. I have lzdcmp.exe but
- it will not decompress the files. Here's the background
-
- 1. I use UCX ftp to get files A.Z AND B.Z from the server.
- 2. I try to decompress them using LZDCMP on the vax trying
- no qualifiers and various combinations of qualifiers which
- had no effect. The program halts with an error message and
- does not decompress the file.
- I tried decompressing files after transferring them via
- ftp in both IMAGE mode and ASCII mode. By the way which
- is the proper mode for .Z files ?
- 3. I can get the file onto my mac and decompress it using a mac
- decompress. I can decompress both the file that was transferred in
- ascii mode and the file transferred in image mode.
-
- 4. Does anyone know why lzdcmp is not working as I'd rather not have
- to go to the mac to decompress these files.
-
- OK; I give up. I've tried and tried and tried, but I just can't seem to guess
- what error message the program halts with. You've really got me puzzled. It
- seems, from the paucity of other replies, that you've puzzled everyone else on
- INFO-VAX, too. That WAS the point of your message, wasn't it? I mean, if
- you'd wanted to know how to decompress the file, you would have told us what
- the error message was, and what "various combinations of qualifiers" you had
- tried and with what effect.
-
- Oh, I know: You wanted an answer WHATEVER THE ERROR MESSAGE WAS. So let me
- pick one. I pick:
-
- %SYSTEM-F-DEVICEFULL, device full - allocation failure
-
- This means you have no space on your disk for the output file. The solution
- is either to buy a bigger disk (hey, I've got a spare RD53 I could part with
- for a reasonable sum) or you have to delete a bunch of files.
-
- OK?
- -- Jerry
-
-