From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Miguel Bolanos Subject: Re: [PATCH] elkscmd: add ncompress 4.2.4 port Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 20:50:23 -0600 Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1086144623.3220.36.camel@talena.hsol.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: claudio@conectiva.com Cc: linux-8086@vger.kernel.org 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.