Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!elroy!jato!jbrown From: jbrown@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Jordan Brown) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: DOS [un]compress / tar Message-ID: <210@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> Date: 23 Sep 88 03:48:19 GMT References: <38596@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> Reply-To: jbrown@jato.UUCP (Jordan Brown) Organization: Me? Organized? Lines: 11 In article <38596@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> spolsky@CS.Yale.EDU (Joel Spolsky) writes: >BOY could I use a compatible PC-DOS [un]compress ... > >I have the sources to compress but I imagine porting it is non-trivial >(it looks pretty hairy and machine-dependant?) so I don't want to >undertake this if it has been done. For the version from the News 2.11 distribution, all I had to do (I think) was to #define pcxt. I know it wasn't much work. (This for MSC4.) (It does behave a little stupidly as far as trying to slap a ".Z" on the end of the filename; DOS doesn't think much of "foo.c.z"...)