Re: Gzip for AmigaDOS

[tron%lyssa.owl.de@localhost (Matthias Scheler)]

In article <199611201153.LAA22914%vulcan.baynet.co.uk@localhost>,
        beard%baynet.co.uk@localhost writes:
> Has anyone managed to locate a decent, working version of Gzip for
> AmigaDOS ?

Yes.

> I've searched everywhere, and the only one I've found is gzip124x2 on
> Aminet under util/pack.

I use exactly this one.

> This works to a point, but won't handle .tgz files, ...

No version of "gzip" handles ".tgz". It's the GNU version of "tar" which
handels ".tgz" or ".tar.gz" files.

> and seems to  crash my system more than I can tolerate.

It never crashed on mine. Maybe you should increase the stack size. My
shell have at least 16384 bytes stack.

> Maybe it isn't 040 friendly, I dunno.

My system is an A4000/040.

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Matthias Scheler
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