🚀 go-pugleaf

Andy McFadden (fadden@uts.amdahl.com) wrote:
: While it's still a bit early, it wouldn't be a bad idea to port GNU Zip (gzip)
: to GNO.  It's intended to be a replacement for UNIX compress.
: 
: It uses Zip's "deflate" algorithm, which will do better than freeze(1) on
: the medium to high settings (you can control speed vs compression with -1 to
: -9).  It's larger than freeze but smaller than a complete archiver, and has
: some useful features.
: 
: It's only at v0.6 right now.  You can find it on ftp.uu.net in /systems/gnu/
: as gzip-0.6.tar.Z, and it's mirrored on prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/.
: 
: -- 
: fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
: [ Above opinions are mine, Amdahl has nothing to do with them, etc, etc. ]

And to think, I have already gotten this onto the GS and will be starting
work next week on it.

James Brookes and I have talked about it.

I had Info-Zip's zip v1.9pl1 working, but I couldn't get unzip 5.0 working
at all, and had to drop the project till we get a better compiler and such.

If anyone would rather do the work for gzip, go for it and tell me so that
I don't keep working on it.

Mike