compress program on SCO Xenix

Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX caf at omen.UUCP
Sun Mar 8 21:20:26 AEST 1987


In article <198 at gsg.UUCP> lew at gsg.UUCP (Paul Lew) writes:
:Question:	Anyone installed compress on SCO Xenix yet?
:
:Problem:	Compress is not doing anything, it runs but terminated
:		with the file unchanged.  There are some #ifdef M_XENIX
:		in the code but it may not be tested.

I have both 12 bit (small model) and 16 bit (large model with M_XENIX).
The large model compress chokes on some files (as does a version compiled
under MicroPort), but seems to uncompress 16 bit news feeds OK.  Be careful
of Microsoft "unsigned" right shifts that aren't unsigned.



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