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- From: jloup@chorus.fr (Jean-loup Gailly)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: gzip
- Message-ID: <1825@chorus.chorus.fr>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 14:39:44 GMT
- Sender: jloup@chorus.chorus.fr
- Reply-To: jloup@chorus.fr (Jean-loup Gailly)
- Lines: 42
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- I'm the author of gzip. I do not usually suscribe to comp.os.linux
- but somebody just pointed out to me that there was some discussion on
- gzip there. I am replying here to several postings.
-
-
- donadio@wilbur.psu.edu (Beaker) writes:
-
- > If you really want to have tar use gzip, the hack is quite easy. Just
- > get the source to tar-1.11.1 and change lines 456 and 458 of buffer.c.
- > Change "compress" to "gzip" (there are a total of 4) and you are set.
-
- I have temporarily put a better patch on alpha.prep.ai.mit.edu in
- /tmp/gzip-tar-1.11.1.patch. With this patch, tar -cz invokes gzip, tar
- -cZ invokes compress. You can use tar -xz to extract both compressed
- and gzip'ed tar files. This patch or an equivalent one will be
- integrated in future versions of tar.
-
-
- kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
-
- > gzip knows the System V "pack" format? If so, then ".z" is okay. If not,
- > it should be nipped in the bud NOW.
-
- gzip 0.8 (to be released tomorrow) is able to extract files in the
- System V "pack" format. The detection of the input format is
- automatic.
-
-
- greg@squally.halcyon.com (Greg Naber) writes:
-
- > I would appriciate it if someone with access to turbo-c for dos
- > would compile and make available the zgip for the dos world
-
- I have temporarily put an MSDOS executable on alpha.prep.ai.mit.edu in
- /tmp/gzip071.exe. It is an lha self-extracting archive with readme,
- gzip.doc and gzip.exe. COPYING and a pointer to the sources are
- missing, I will upload a new version as soon as gzip 0.8 is frozen.
- If you don't like self-extracting archives, you can extract the files
- with "lha x gzip071.exe".
-
- Jean-loup Gailly
- jloup@chorus.fr
-