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Article #656Re: Problem with compress
From: Brad Templeton
Date: Wed, 15 May 1991 23:39
Date: Wed, 15 May 1991 23:39
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No, the example I gave is not easy. The current compress program loses two letters of the filename on 14 char filesystems, and destroys information such as the file's original length and access time, plus it is *not* something you want to do if you're making a backup. You could save this information in the compressed file, but by then you've made 90% of an archiver. The proper solution is an archiver which can call a arbitrary compressing tool, but we don't have that. -- Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473
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Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!looking!brad From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) Subject: Re: Problem with compress Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd. Date: Wed, 15 May 91 23:39:54 GMT Message-ID: <1991May15.233954.27448@looking.on.ca> References: <1991May14.044431.23932@sparky.IMD.Sterling.COM> <26085:May1416:52:3491@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <1991May14.185447.2498@nntp-server.caltech.edu> <1991May15.062504.28369@looking.on.ca> <3151@shodha.enet.dec.com>