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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?
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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"...)