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Re: GZ, What compression is this?



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