home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Xref: sparky comp.sys.sgi:18104 comp.sys.sgi.misc:12 comp.sys.sgi.graphics:27
- Path: sparky!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!sgigate!sgi!fido!zola!ramoth!msc
- From: msc@ramoth.esd.sgi.com (Mark Callow)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sgi.graphics
- Subject: Re: Need program with source to compress files
- Message-ID: <tm7gerc@zola.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 16 Dec 92 18:29:48 GMT
- References: <1992Dec16.110110.3038@news.uni-stuttgart.de> <matt-161292104556@wardmac9.med.yale.edu>
- Sender: news@zola.esd.sgi.com (Net News)
- Followup-To: comp.sys.sgi,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sgi.graphics
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- Lines: 32
-
-
- In article <matt-161292104556@wardmac9.med.yale.edu>, matt@wardsgi.med.yale.edu writes:
- > In article <1992Dec16.110110.3038@news.uni-stuttgart.de>,
- > wnkretz@ikesg1.energietechnik.uni-stuttgart.de (Oliver Kretzschmar) wrote:
- > >
- > > Hey,
- > >
- > > I am looking for a program with source code to compress files.
- > > if possible running on SGI. Could somebody send me informations
- > > about good ones ?
- > >
- > > Thanks for your efforts,
- > >
- >
- > The standard Unix utility "compress" comes with most Irix versions
- > (type "man compress" for instructions). Is that what you need?
- >
- > Source code for that is probably impossible to get unless you have
- > an *expensive* source license; do you really need source?
- >
-
- Compress was originally freely distributed for use with usenet news
- and later was incorporated into the usenet B news source code. I'm sure
- it's still part of that source. There was some fuss a few years ago
- when some company (Unisys, I think) tried to assert patent rightst to
- the original LZ compression algorithm used in compress but it seems to
- have blown over.
-
- On other words it isn't part of UNIX and you don't need an expensive
- UNIX source licence to get the source.
-
- -Mark
-