Via: uk.ac.aston; Thu, 18 Mar 1993 20:03:22 +0000 To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu From: John Fletcher Date: 18 Mar 93 18:18:22 GMT Subject: Re: gzip binary for DJGPP or other MSDOS? Reply-To: J DOT P DOT Fletcher AT aston DOT ac DOT uk > 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: --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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! | --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 BIRMINGHAM B4 7ET U.K. Email(JANET only): J DOT P DOT FLETCHER AT UK DOT AC DOT ASTON --------------------------------------------------------------------- om djgpp-bounces Fri Mar 19 03:28:48 1993 Received: by sun.soe.clarkson.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA25526; Fri, 19 Mar 93 02:46:23 EST Return-Path: Received: from munnari.oz.au by sun.soe.clarkson.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA25516; Fri, 19 Mar 93 02:46:10 EST Received: from labtam.labtam.oz by munnari.oz.au with SunIII (5.83--+1.3.1+0.50) id AB23214; Fri, 19 Mar 1993 17:46:02 +1000 (from graeme AT labtam DOT labtam DOT oz DOT au) Received: from localhost by labtam.labtam.oz.au (5.64/1.15) id AA29942; Fri, 19 Mar 93 17:44:11 +1000 Date: Fri, 19 Mar 93 17:44:11 +1000 From: graeme AT labtam DOT labtam DOT oz DOT au (Graeme Gill) Message-Id: <9303190744 DOT AA29942 AT labtam DOT labtam DOT oz DOT au> 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 --------------------------- cut here ------------------------------- *** ./libsrc/c/makefile.n Fri Mar 19 17:34:59 1993 --- ./libsrc/c/makefile.n Fri Mar 19 17:35:33 1993 *************** *** 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 --- ./libsrc/c/str/bzero.s Fri Mar 19 17:From djgpp-bounces Fri Mar 19 10:28:49 1993 Received: by sun.soe.clarkson.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA29629; Fri, 19 Mar 93 09:39:52 EST Return-Path: Received: from server.physics.lsa.umich.edu by sun.soe.clarkson.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA29610; Fri, 19 Mar 93 09:39:48 EST Received: by server.physics.lsa.umich.edu (4.1/1123-1.0(us)) id AA10107; Fri, 19 Mar 93 09:41:12 EST Date: Fri, 19 Mar 93 09:41:12 EST From: Mike Sanders Message-Id: <9303191441 DOT AA10107 AT server DOT physics DOT lsa DOT umich DOT edu> 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/)