Problems with Compress 4.1 (as posted comp.sources.misc)
Dave Mack
pre-release version and has a number of fairly serious bugs.
I recommend not using it until I post a patch or two to bring it
up to date. Unfortunately, the posted version of compress4.1
hasn't arrived at my site yet, so I don't have the posted version
to make diffs against. If someone in the DC/MD/VA area could
email me a copy of the posted code, I'd appreciate it.
In addition, there appears to be another version of compress floating
around called compress4.3, which is supposed to be both faster and
more portable than the compress4.0 code on which compress4.1 is
based. As far as I can tell, compress4.3 has never been posted to
the net, but is available at several anonymous FTP sites. At some point
in the near future, I will attempt to get in touch with the persons
responsible for the 4.3 version to reconcile code changes and
version numbers. Presumably, you can all expect a release of
compress4.4 sometime this summer.
In the meantime, please keep those patches, complaints and words
of praise pouring in.
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Clay S. Haapala
>In addition, there appears to be another version of compress floating
>around called compress4.3, which is supposed to be both faster and
I got compress4.3 from Compu$erve over a year and a half ago. I have had no
compatibility problems using it. One can pick whether to use adaptive reset
or not, trading space for speed, but the program can always decompress files
made with either choice.
As long as we are reconciling differences, SCO has added the -P switch (I
think) that it uses to decompress its tar distributions. As far as I know,
this switch is undocumented. This usage prevents me from replacing the
compress on my XENIX or UNIX boxes with any other than what SCO has supplied.
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Pete Holsberg
=around called compress4.3, which is supposed to be both faster and
=more portable than the compress4.0 code on which compress4.1 is
=based. As far as I can tell, compress4.3 has never been posted to
=the net, but is available at several anonymous FTP sites.
I submitted it to comp.sources.misc over a year ago. I don't know about
faster but it is definitely more portable and permits 16 bit compression
on most of the platforms it supports.
=At some point
=in the near future, I will attempt to get in touch with the persons
=responsible for the 4.3 version to reconcile code changes and
=version numbers. Presumably, you can all expect a release of
=compress4.4 sometime this summer.
Don Gloistein, the "remaining" author of 4.3d, appears to be back so
you can contact him via his Compuserve ID, as contained in the 4.3d
source files.
Pete
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Kent Landfield
>In article <1991Jun27.2...@alembic.acs.com> c...@alembic.acs.com (Dave Mack) writes:
>=In addition, there appears to be another version of compress floating
>=around called compress4.3, which is supposed to be both faster and
>=more portable than the compress4.0 code on which compress4.1 is
>=based. As far as I can tell, compress4.3 has never been posted to
>=the net, but is available at several anonymous FTP sites.
>
>I submitted it to comp.sources.misc over a year ago. I don't know about
>faster but it is definitely more portable and permits 16 bit compression
>on most of the platforms it supports.
>
It was never posted to comp.sources.misc... Why, I don't know, but it is not
in the archives. I looked... :-)
-Kent+
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