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RE: .tar.gz
- To: "'jazz at softway dot com'" <jazz at softway dot com>, "dahms at ifk20 dot mach dot uni-karlsruhe dot de" <dahms at ifk20 dot mach dot uni-karlsruhe dot de>
- Subject: RE: .tar.gz
- From: Brian David Womack <bwomack at ptc dot com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 15:20:22 -0600
- Cc: "gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com" <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>
- Organization: Parametric Technology Corporation
- Reply-To: "bwomack at ptc dot com" <bwomack at ptc dot com>
Hail Jason!
Very good point. I've felt that this debate about gzip being
non-portable was bogus as well. Every UNIX and PC I've been
using has had a cross-platform compile of gzip. Never had
a problem.
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Brian Womack Parametric Technology Corp
801-588-4611/4650 Voice/FAX bwomack@ptc.com
On Wednesday, July 30, 1997 4:33 PM, Jason Zions [SMTP:jazz@softway.com] wrote:
> > But g*zip is not portable, either, only *compress is "standard" on unix.
> > You can just as well install gtar, under that name, too (or link on Linux).
>
> gzip/gunzip are a helluva lot more portable than compress/uncompress;
> the code is universally available, and unencumbered by the Unisys patent
> on LZW compression. The requirement for a patent license to ship
> compress has driven us away from providing it; we use gzip/gunzip.
>
> Jason Zions
> Softway Systems Inc
> http://www.OpenNT.com
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