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From: F35KER%DHHDESY3.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu
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Subject: re: uudecode -b16
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Date: 9 May 90 11:24:59 GMT
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> Date:         Sat, 5 May 90 06:05:42 GMT
> From:         mike.irons@LYNX.NORTHEASTERN.EDU
> Subject:      uudecode -b16
>
> :Could someone please post a version of compress that can do 16 bit
> uncompress that runs under Minix or explain how it can be built on a   PC. I

There was a version of compress (version 4.3 I think) posted to
comp.os.minix about a year ago that could do 16 bit compression and
decompression on an ST with enough memory. I don't know who posted it,
but I can look it up.
I'm using this one to decompress files from other hosts but it has a
serious bug: when the size of the output file reaches 128000 bytes
(not 128 Kbytes!) it stops reporting a write error. This does however
not happen if you compress -dc >outfile . This is not a problem of
insufficiant stack or /tmp space and I have tracked it down to a failing
write(2) call. I first attributed it to a bug in the old ST 1.1 libc.a
but the problem persists with the 1.5.5 lib.
Has anybode else experienced this and fixed it? This version of compress
could be very useful at least on the ST, perhaps also on PCs.

Kerst van Raden
F35KER @ DHHDESY3   ( .BITNET :-(   )