Hi, just a (maybe heretic) proposal: is it feasible and possible to replace the <compress> utility with <gzip> for test result compression in one of the future NS-2.x releases?
The use of compression/decompression tools within test-all-template1 is currently rather inconsistent: it uses <compress> for test compression but gzip -dc for test decompression just a few lines later. (I believe it's hard-coded and not autoconfigured, didn't check it though). If gzip is required anyhow, why not use it also for compressing the result files? Background: compress uses patented algorithms and is not implemented on most to all free Unix derivates. Gzip provides better compression ratio and is available under the GPL. Any comments on this? best regards Joachim PS: Changing is straight-forward: textual replacement of 6 occurrences of .Z with .gz and replacing compress on line 120 of test-all-template1 with gzip.
