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- From: beck@enterprise.den.mmc.com (Fred R. Beck)
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- Subject: Re: Need program with source to compress files
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.145415.3758@den.mmc.com>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 14:54:15 GMT
- References: <1992Dec16.110110.3038@news.uni-stuttgart.de> <matt-161292104556@wardmac9.med.yale.edu> <tm7gerc@zola.esd.sgi.com>
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- In article <tm7gerc@zola.esd.sgi.com>, msc@ramoth.esd.sgi.com (Mark Callow) writes:
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- |> 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
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- An "improved" version is also included with the TeX/LaTeX source!
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- -fred
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