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- From: m91der@tdb.uu.se (Daniel Eriksson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: GNU ZIP v0.6 ported to Atari
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.015924.26763@tdb.uu.se>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 01:59:24 GMT
- Organization: Uppsala university, Sweden
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- I've just finished a quick and dirty port of the latest GNU ZIP (v0.6).
- You will find it at atari.archive in the near future, and at ftp.uni-kl.de
- when you read this (/pub/atari/archivers/gzip06st.zoo). It looks like
- FSF will use GNU ZIP instead of COMPRESS in the future in the GNU-project.
- That means a LOT of people will start using it fairly soon, so why not be
- one of them? :-) Anyway, GNU ZIP does compress a lot better and it will
- eventually support the immensly popular PKZIP-format (from the PC-world).
- It already suports multiple-file archives (something COMPRESS never did).
- For more information on what is planned for future GNU ZIP-releases please
- take a look at the TODO-file in the original source-distribution (see below).
-
- In the archive you will find two different executables. One that should
- run fine under for example MinixFS (called gzip_xfs.ttp) and one that
- I compiled so that it shouldn't use symbolic links, multiple dot-filenames
- or try to change the owner of the file (called gzip_tos.ttp since I
- believe there's a small chance it will work on a normal TOSFS). Neither
- of the two programs has been tested _without_ MiNT installed, so if you
- try to run them from plain old TOS you might run into big problems. The
- two executables has been built by GCC v2.3.1 PL1 with MiNTlibs PL25 (if
- anyone is interested :-).
-
- You will also find the original README file, the COPYING file, a small
- document describing GNU ZIP and the makefile I used when building GNU
- ZIP on the Atari. The original source-distribution can be found at your
- local gnu-ftp-site or at prep.ai.mit.edu as /pub/gnu/gzip-0.6.tar.Z. In
- the source-distribution you will also find a couple of shell-scripts that
- could come in handy when dealing with packed files. There's also some more
- documentation concerning the algorithm and a man-page.
-
- Share and enjoy!
-
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