GNU compress/uncompress/zcat for ESIX Rev.D
Chin Fang
fangchin at portia.Stanford.EDU
Fri Jan 11 06:51:47 AEST 1991
Since I started this discussion, I would like to throw in one more
thing to whip up the appetite of those who are interested.
GNU compress/uncompress/zcat also allows you to configure the
buffer size as you deem fit (for ex. large buffer size for machines
with lots physical memory). That alone motivated me to switch to
GNU utility. It improves performance for processing large files.
One more question to the netland, does anyone know whether the
ramdisk utility (/etc/ramdisk* as for ESIX rev.D) has a solid
public domain counterpart or not? I had to mail to ESIX for
usuage after browsing it using a binary editor without success.
Poor documentations seem to be the only bad thing about ESIX so far to
me.
I also built mtools v.2.0 of Emmet Gary for ESIX Rev.D. Works much better
than the old versions that comes with ESIX. Many many thanks to Emmet.
What a guy.
Regards.
Chin Fang
Mechanical Engineering Department
Stanford University
fangchin at portia.stanford.edu
ps. maybe someone has tried FSF's GNU file utilities in ESIX. I built the
entire set and tested them all. ls behaved very strangely (ie.
outputs garbage). I didn't have time to figure out why. So that
time, I junked GNU file utility suite and retained ESIX faithfuls.
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