On 6/25/07, Stefan O'Rear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
.z : always pack
.Z : always compress
.gz : always gzip
gzip can handle all three, zlib only the last. (Are you *sure* your
file is compress?)
This means it's compress, doesn't it?
$ file myData.z
myData.z: compress'd data 16 bits
> I could just tell the OS to start a gzip process, but I need to be
> able to build it here on my Linux box, and run it on various MS
> machines. Seems like the best approach at this point might be to
> require everyone (only 3 people) to uncompress the data onto the hard
> drive first, then go from there.
Or could could reimplement compress in Haskell. The algorithm is
shockingly simple, and there is a sample implementation (needs
optimization and compress(1) header support, but the LZW engine is
there) is already on the Wiki. Note that the patent expired in June
'06, so you don't need to worry about that.
http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Toy_compression_implementations
This looks like a lot of fun, but I've got too many other pieces of
code to try to get running efficiently as it is. But I hadn't seen
this link before, and it looks like interesting stuff. Thanks!
Chad
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