sec : U Re: Gzip / compression handling? [message #32252] |
Mon, 23 September 2002 16:14  |
Andrew Cool
Messages: 219 Registered: January 1996
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Doug Rowland wrote:
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> I'm using Mac OS X and Solaris. I'm sure what you describe will work, I
> was just hoping for some way that was OS - independent. (At a minimum, I
> would need to be able to do this under Windows. VMS would be a bonus
> but not completely necessary).
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> Maybe it will boil down to writing separate modules for each platform,
> using your suggestion for unix and unix-like systems.
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> Thanks.
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> Doug
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>> If you are using a unix system, there might be a way to pipe (|) your
>> lun/stream through the gzip/gunzip command. Are you using unix?
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>> -k.
Doug,
Pipe is implemented on VMS too (after a fashion), so if you get
something working under *nix, you might hit the jackpot with VMS too.
Andrew
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