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Re: compress / ncompress package for Cygwin
- From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" <yselkowitz at users dot sourceforge dot net>
- To: "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 12:23:49 -0500
- Subject: Re: compress / ncompress package for Cygwin
- References: <52176D9A dot 3000602 at inria dot fr> <20130823150903 dot GY2562 at calimero dot vinschen dot de>
On Fri, 2013-08-23 at 17:09 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Aug 23 16:11, Hubert Garavel wrote:
> >
> > Contrary to most Unix-like operating systems, Cygwin does not have
> > the /bin/compress command installed by default and has no package
> > to install it on demand. Cygwin has an uncompress command (that relies
> > on gunzip), but no compress command to make genuine .Z files.
> >
> > This would be certainly easy to solve, using the work of the Ncompress
> > project at http://ncompress.sourceforge.net/
>
> Why not, but "somebody" (you?) will have to create and maintain the
> 32 and 64 bit packages as the official Cygwin package maintainer.
http://cygwin-ports.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=cygwin-ports/ncompress
Note that on Fedora, uncompress is provided by ncompress, not gzip,
although that is not mandatory.
Yaakov
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