Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!brahms.berkeley.edu!koonce From: koonce@brahms.berkeley.edu (tim koonce) Newsgroups: comp.os.os9 Subject: Re: Archivers (ZIPpers) (WAS: Forth for the CoCo) Summary: Get "compress" from Listserv. Message-ID: <1989Oct13.012306.24166@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: 13 Oct 89 01:23:06 GMT References: <904@unsvax.NEVADA.EDU> Sender: koonce@math.berkeley.edu Reply-To: koonce@brahms.berkeley.edu (tim koonce) Followup-To: comp.os.os9 Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 32 Mike Storke (storkus@arrakis.nevada.edu) writes: > Speaking of ZIPpers and ARChivers, where can I get a GOOD set? Like Well, SEA's ARC programs are huge, ungainly beasts, since they try to support so many compression formats. I doubt you will get a good ARC or ZIP program on OS9/6809, certainly not on Level 1. But I'm always willing to be proved wrong... However, you might want to look into the following: - ar Carl Kreider's standard archiver for OS9. Very reliable, and does reasonable compression. Also, fairly quick. - pak I don't recall the author. Supports a variety of compression formats. Good, although slower than ar, and it does tend to weird out when decoding files that have XModem garbage appended. - compress This is a port of the standard PD Unix compression utility. Uses 12-bit LZW compression, and works very well. Completely compatible with the Unix version (except for the 12 bit limitation), I often move compressed files from OS9 to/from Unix. Includes source. (I beleive this is where SEA stole their LZW code from.) All of these are available from Delphi, Compuserve, or the OS9 Listserv on Bitnet. >appropriate. Oh, yes, please be sure it will run on LEVEL I OS-9 on a CoCo 2 >(64K machine, version 02.00.00 OS-9 from update). ar and pak will certainly run under Level 1. Compress might be a little large, though. It does run well under Level 2. Never really checked it's memory requirements. Certainly worth trying. - Tim