Subject: Re: Gzip for AmigaDOS
To: None <port-amiga@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Matthias Scheler <tron@lyssa.owl.de>
List: port-amiga
Date: 11/20/1996 12:38:47
In article <199611201153.LAA22914@vulcan.baynet.co.uk>,
beard@baynet.co.uk 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
tron@lyssa.owl.de