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- GNU Compress 4.0.1 for Windows NT(tm)
-
- The following changes were made :
-
- o The default for the -i flag used to be to translate LF's
- to CRLF's. This would ruin things like tar files if you forgot
- the -i. I changed compress such that the default is now -i.
-
- You can use -t to get the LF-translating behavior (very destructive
- to binary files). The only penalty for forgetting the -t on
- a text file that came from UNIX is that there will be no CR's
- in the output. You can :
- recompress (without -t) and then decompress with -t
- or fix it with an editor by substituting CRLF for LF
-
- o This version is compiled with long-name support. That is,
- it is not limited to the 8+3 filename structure of MS-DOS
- FAT volumes. While extremely useful for NTFS volumes, no
- attempt was made to munge names for FAT and HPFS volumes.
- NT does do some name mapping internally, but the .Z extension
- is often mangled/deleted.
-
- o Note that the name compress.exe conflicts with the name of the
- MicroSoft-supplied program `compress.exe'. I have been using
- the name compres.exe for this program to avoid the conflict.
-
- o You can copy the program compres.exe to uncompress.exe and
- zcat.exe to get those functions. To save disk space, you
- can skip these copies and use the following equivalencies
- instead :
- uncompress == compress -d
- zcat == compress -c -d
- You may want/need to add the -t flag to these commands.
-
- In accordance with the GNU General Software License, this software is
- yours to freely redistribute so long as you do so within the terms of
- the GNU General Software License. In accordance with the provisions
- of that license, and to support our continued porting and programming
- efforts, we request a $5.00 registration fee if you use this SII
- version of the GNU software. Checks may be directed to the address
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-
- The software is not warranted to be fit for any use or purpose.
-
- Registered users may direct questions to:
-
- Software Innovations Incorporated
- Martin R. Calsyn
- PO Box 644
- Ames, IA 50010
-
- (515) 292-4042
-
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