From: Miguel Bolanos <mike@linuxlabs.com>
To: claudio@conectiva.com
Cc: linux-8086@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] elkscmd: add ncompress 4.2.4 port
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 20:50:23 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1086144623.3220.36.camel@talena.hsol.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58L.0406012141550.27909@damien.conectiva>
NICE.
Applied. Thanks.
Mike
On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 18:58, claudio@conectiva.com wrote:
> "This is version 4.2 of (N)compress (an improved version of compress 4.1).
>
> Compress is a fast, simple LZW file compressor. Compress does not have
> the highest compression rate, but it is one of the fastest programs to
> compress data. Compress is the defacto standard in the UNIX community
> for compressing files."
>
> (Or at least it was, in 1990.)
>
> Ok. I had to place half of the program tables in BSS and other half in the
> the heap because ELKS currently allocates 32Kb for dseg and bseg and 32Kb
> for heap/stack. I'll remove this hack after we see what's happening in the
> kernel.
>
> This port is limited to 12 bit compression, so you must compress with
> -b12 to be able to uncompress in ELKS.
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2004-06-02 0:58 [PATCH] elkscmd: add ncompress 4.2.4 port claudio
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