From: jloup@chorus.fr (Jean-loup Gailly) Subject: gzip Date: 21 Jan 1993 14:39:44 GMT
I'm the author of gzip. I do not usually suscribe to comp.os.linux
but somebody just pointed out to me that there was some discussion on
gzip there. I am replying here to several postings.
donadio@wilbur.psu.edu (Beaker) writes:
> If you really want to have tar use gzip, the hack is quite easy. Just
> get the source to tar-1.11.1 and change lines 456 and 458 of buffer.c.
> Change "compress" to "gzip" (there are a total of 4) and you are set.
I have temporarily put a better patch on alpha.prep.ai.mit.edu in
/tmp/gzip-tar-1.11.1.patch. With this patch, tar -cz invokes gzip, tar
-cZ invokes compress. You can use tar -xz to extract both compressed
and gzip'ed tar files. This patch or an equivalent one will be
integrated in future versions of tar.
kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
> gzip knows the System V "pack" format? If so, then ".z" is okay. If not,
> it should be nipped in the bud NOW.
gzip 0.8 (to be released tomorrow) is able to extract files in the
System V "pack" format. The detection of the input format is
automatic.
greg@squally.halcyon.com (Greg Naber) writes:
> I would appriciate it if someone with access to turbo-c for dos
> would compile and make available the zgip for the dos world
I have temporarily put an MSDOS executable on alpha.prep.ai.mit.edu in
/tmp/gzip071.exe. It is an lha self-extracting archive with readme,
gzip.doc and gzip.exe. COPYING and a pointer to the sources are
missing, I will upload a new version as soon as gzip 0.8 is frozen.
If you don't like self-extracting archives, you can extract the files
with "lha x gzip071.exe".
Jean-loup Gailly
jloup@chorus.fr