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- From: kemnitz@netcom.com (Greg Kemnitz)
- Newsgroups: comp.compression
- Subject: Re: random access with .Z files
- Message-ID: <93_n36j.kemnitz@netcom.com>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 20:48:26 GMT
- References: <ROBERT.92Aug18172331@n051.saskg.semicon.sony.co.jp>
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- In article <ROBERT.92Aug18172331@n051.saskg.semicon.sony.co.jp> robert@n051.saskg.semicon.sony.co.jp (Robert Veltman) writes:
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- =Is it possible to read a compressed file (LZW I think in the case of
- =UNIX compress) and extract the dictionary information in order to be
- =able to do random fseeks in the compressed file and decode from that
- =point on?
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- =
- =Robert Veltman -- SONY Semiconductor Group Atsugi Japan
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- zcat something.Z | do anything you want here
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