compiling compress (Was Re: how to compile pcomm in sysv)

[Doug Ingraham]

In article <917 at iiasa.UUCP>, wnp at iiasa.AT (wolf paul) writes:
> In article <501 at tndsyd.oz> berny at tndsyd.oz (Berny Goodheart) writes:
> )The 286 is only capable of compressing to 12 BITS. Most
> )32 bit machines compress files to 16 bits. If the files you are trying
> )to de-compress where originally compressed on a 32 bit machine, ...
> 
> Apart from the fact that I have used a 16-bit uncompress on a 286
> several years ago, the reply above does not seem to have anything to
> do with the question it purports to answer. What is going on?
> 
There is an option in compress to allow the big array to be broken
into 64k chunks that will fit on a xenix box.  I think these patches
are ifdef XENIX although it has been a couple of years since I looked at
it.  Look at the sources for a couple of minutes and you will see what I
mean.  I have never used compress in this way, so I don't know if it
really works, but I saw nothing that would prevent it from working on 
any 286 system that allowed large model data segments.


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