On 29 Oct 94 21:18:00 +0000, Johnathan Taylor said: > N.> Umm, I think gzip will work on any > N.> file of any kind at all - to gzip it's > N.> all just bits and bytes, it doesn't > N.> care what it all means.
> Spot on:-)That's its problem! IT is also its strength. There is nothing to stop you from adding a 16-byte header to each file before you compress it so that its file type and so on can be put back correctly when it is decompressed. Or you could completely ignore that and just compress an area of memory. For all I know, gzip could have an OS-dependent header in it anyway - it's some time since I read the file format documentation... imc
