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