pack/compress?
(please cc: replies to me, i am not on this list) it strikes me as odd that the standard potato doesn't seem to include the pack huffman coder or compress lzw compressor. while these are fairly obsoleted by gzip, especially as gunzip will read .z and .Z files, they still are mildly useful. am i blatantly wrong and there's actually some package containing them, or should i just write my own copies? --p. For a price I'd do about anything, except pull the trigger: for that I'd need a pretty good cause -- Queensryche, Revolution Calling PGP 5.0 key (0xE024447449) at http://cif.rochester.edu/~jpt/pubkey.txt
Re: pack/compress?
it strikes me as odd that the standard potato doesn't seem to include the pack huffman coder or compress lzw compressor. while these are fairly I think lzw is still under copyright, which means that it's illegal to distribute them without a copyright license. Will -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ | |PGP Public Key: http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/index.html#pgpkey| -- | And if you hold on tight to what you think is your thing | |you may find you're missing all the rest ...| |- Dave Matthews, Best of What's Around | --
Re: pack/compress?
On Mon Jun 7, 1999, Jonathan P Tomer wrote: it strikes me as odd that the standard potato doesn't seem to include the pack huffman coder or compress lzw compressor. while these are fairly obsoleted by gzip, especially as gunzip will read .z and .Z files, they still are mildly useful. am i blatantly wrong and there's actually some package containing them, or should i just write my own copies? Look for the ncompress package. It is in non-free due to certain alleged patent restrictions. Noel
