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Re: GZ, What compression is this?
- Subject: Re: GZ, What compression is this?
- From: jamess@cts.com (Jim Stafford)
- Date: 1996/10/19
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: CTS Network Services (CTSNET), San Diego, CA
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Joseph Lee (nugundam@netcom.com) wrote:
: Tilghman Lesher (lesherjt@vuse.vanderbilt.edu) wrote:
: : Gzip (actually GNU zip) has freely accessable source code. The program
: : has been ported to the //gs, but unfortunately, it causes the machine
: : to crash, even though it sometimes works.
: I would fix the crashing problem, if somebody would distinctly point out a
: repeatable crash scenario. I haven't been able replicate any bug reports
: to locate where the bugs are. I haven't been able to recompile gzip with the
: new ORCA/C 2.1 because gnolib needs to be recompiled to link with it.
: Basically, nothing forthcoming.
Every time I use gzip on my GS it crashes as soon as it gets done
unzipping the file. It does however unzip the file.
jamess