Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!killer!vector!rpp386!jfh From: jfh@rpp386.UUCP (John F. Haugh II) Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted Subject: Re: Looking for compress that works from disk. Message-ID: <3769@rpp386.UUCP> Date: 9 Jul 88 16:14:16 GMT References: <757@leah.Albany.Edu> Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.UUCP (The Beach Bum) Organization: Big "D" Home for Wayward Hackers Lines: 16 In article <757@leah.Albany.Edu> rmb384@leah.Albany.Edu (Robert M. Bownes III) writes: > Some time ago, soeone mentioned having converted compress to >work to/from disk instead of memory. I'd like a copy if someone has one around. >Thanks, > Bob i think you are refering to postings of mine. i did get it to sort of work. however, the speed was so slow as to be worthless. i hate to suggest you buy more memory, but if you want a compress which can do it's work in your lifetime, that may be the only solution. - john. -- John F. Haugh II +--------- Cute Chocolate Quote --------- HASA, "S" Division | "USENET should not be confused with UUCP: killer!rpp386!jfh | something that matters, like CHOCOLATE" DOMAIN: jfh@rpp386.uucp | -- with my apologizes