Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!ucsd!rutgers!paul.rutgers.edu!cenkl From: cenkl@butterfly.rutgers.edu (Michal W. Cenkl) Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: file format problems... Message-ID: Date: 19 Mar 88 20:32:08 GMT Organization: Rutgers University @ New Brunswick NJ 08903 Lines: 17 I compiled the Unix version of compress under VMS 4.6 using VAXC. Compress (which does buffer character IO) seemed to work fine with the exception that applications not written in Unix C complained about the format of files which where compressed and then subsequently uncompressed. Most notably the editor complained that such files did not have the standard text file format... this makes some sense in light of the fact that dir/full shows the original file and its uncompressed brother to have different sizes (the original is always the larger). However, all of the information that I would care about is in the file! Has anybody succesfully ported LZW compression to VMS? Any help would be appreciated. As you may have guessed I'm not terribly adept at VMSisms. Thanks, -mike {cenkl@paul.rutgers.edu, ...!rutgers!paul!cenkl}