Mail Archives: djgpp/1993/03/18/20:32:24
> To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
> Subject: gzip binary for DJGPP or other MSDOS?
> Reply-to: J DOT P DOT Fletcher AT aston DOT ac DOT uk
> Date: 18 Mar 93 16:39:40
> Says it all. I have downloaded the source of gzip-1.0.6 and it has a
> makefile for various MSDOS compilers but the automatic configuration
> seems to work for Unix only. Can anyone point me to MSDOS bianried
> for this tool?
>
> Thanks
>
> John
>
I've found my own answer (on Usenet) and it may help to post it:
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From: kko AT fraser DOT sfu DOT ca (Samuel Ko)
Subject: Re: GZIP
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1993 20:49:21 GMT
Mike_Quigley AT mindlink DOT bc DOT ca (Mike Quigley) writes:
>At the FTP site ftp.tcp.com, they are using a program called GZIP to
compress
>many of the files there. It allegedly compresses even better than
the Unix
>compress. There are, according to the opening blab, versions of this
program
>for MSDOS platforms. The only one which is actually AT the site that
I can
>find is a Unix version, which is of little use to me. Does anyone
know where
>an MSDOS version of this file exists, assuming it is shareware or
freeware?
Yes, there is a MSDOS version of GNU gzip ... Get gzip-msdos-
1.0.6.exe from
/pub/gnu at prep.ai.mit.edu ... or gzip106.exe from /tmp at
hal.ai.mit.edu
or /pub/msdos_uploads at wuarchive.wustl.edu ...
For those who don't know about GNU zip, it is designed as a
replacement
of UNIX compress ... It has a better compression ratio than compress
(becuase
it uses the same compression method as Info-ZIP's zip) ... and it is
free
of any patent disputes ... It's important that you get gzip as all GNU
files at prep.ai.mit.edu are now compressed with gzip and more and
more
UNIX files will be compressed with it ...
Samuel ... the one who brings you the "Useful MSDOS Programs at
SIMTEL20 and Garbo" ... Have you read the latest issue yet? ... :)
| Samuel C. Ko (aka The Smart One / BOZO) <--> a celebrity & DOS/UNIX
wizard :)
:) kko AT sfu DOT ca <--> Outspoken,Highly-talented,Charming... I post this
for You! |
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I've got it and it seems to work O.K. (the file GZIP106.exe is a self
extracting file -> gzip.exe, gzip.doc, readme etc.)
Cheers
John
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Dr John P. Fletcher
Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry,
Aston University, Tel: (44) 21 359 3611 ext 4625
Aston Triangle, Email(Most systems): J DOT P DOT FLETCHER AT ASTON DOT AC DOT UK
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To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Faster memory routines
After finally tracking down a more recent copy of
djgpp (the first copy I was directed to had no version
number, and presumably was the original release), I notice
that while the jcxz/jecxz bug in the memory library routines
has been fixed, they are still the rather slow byte at a time
functions.
Here are some replacement routines that do word aligned
32 bit transfers. This seems to improve (read double) graphics
performance for AT bus graphics cards. If anyone gets around to
doing VL bus graphics drivers, then this code should be 4 times
faster than the current stuff. It may improve performace of
other code as well. The diffs are against 1.09
(BTW. - what are the _bcopy and _memcopy functions for ? )
Graeme Gill
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*** ./libsrc/c/makefile.n Fri Mar 19 17:34:59 1993
--- ./libsrc/c/makefile.n Fri Mar 19 17:35:33 1993
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*** 162,170 ****
$(ODIR)/memmove.o \
$(ODIR)/_bcopy.o \
$(ODIR)/_memcpy.o \
- $(ODIR)/bcopy.o \
- $(ODIR)/bzero.o \
- $(ODIR)/memcpy.o \
$(ODIR)/memset.o \
$(ODIR)/vfork.o \
$(ODIR)/fork.o \
--- 162,167 ----
*** ./libsrc/c/str/bzero.s Fri Mar 19 17:27:28 1993
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To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re gzip for MSDOS
gzip106.zip is in the compress directory on simtel mirrors.
(oak.oakland.edu:/pub/msdos/compress/)
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