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- AMIGA gzip124x2.lha and gzip124x2.zip archive notes
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- April 9, 1994
- <John.Bush@East.Sun.COM>
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- This is the 2nd RE-distributed gzip executable, version 1.2.4,
- for Amiga. It is being redistributed because an important
- bug has been fixed, and the code is now built on the latest
- SAS/C 6.51 compiler.
-
- Provided here is the "gzip" utility command only (minus gunzip,
- gzcat, etc), including all the neccessary GNU licence documentation.
-
- The gzip command can be linked or duplicated on your system to
- produce the gzcat and gunzip commands, if desired. Otherwise,
- command line options passed to gzip can provide that functionality.
- For example, "gzip -d" is equivalent to "gunzip".
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- In conformance with the GNU license, source code is widely available
- for this product. The master repository is accessible via anonymous
- ftp at:
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- prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu
-
- The gzip code will normally be named, "gzip-m.r.p.tar.Z", where the
- "m.r.p" indicates the current released "major", "revision", and "patch"
- level number.
-
- Also, see the README and COPYING files in this archive for more
- information.
-
- The BUG reporting procedure is outlined in the README file.
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- The previous release, gzip124x1, was a temporary solution for a
- bug in the encryption code. The description of this problem was
- preserved in the file, README.X1, in the distribution archive.
-
- This release, gzip124x2, contains a permanent fix to that problem.
-
- Jim Cooper, from the SAS Institute, correctly pinpointed the problem
- as a faulty assumption about the precision of offsets in relative
- addressing. Minor changes to the assembler routine, match.a,
- solved that problem. MANY THANKS, JIM!
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- The enclosed version of gzip does not work properly on Amigas running
- Workbench 1.3 (Kickstart less than 36). This is because of the lack
- of the ROM entrypoint, Examine_FH, used by the fstat() call in gzip.
-
- This will be corrected in a later version. A Workaround exists.
-
- For now, use standard output to pass files from gzip, as follows:
-
- (substitute your root filename in place of "filename" below)
-
- gzip >filename -dc filename.gz
-
- or
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- gzip >filename.gz -c filename
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- -John Bush
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