Re(2): compressing files on macintosh
Re(2): compressing files on macintosh
- Subject: Re(2): compressing files on macintosh
- From: Jens Bauer <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 14:09:17 +0200
Hi Stiphane and Sachin,
On Tue, 9 Jul, 2002, Stiphane Sudre <email@hidden> wrote:
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On Tuesday, July 9, 2002, at 10:07 AM, sachin mogam wrote:
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> Is there any way to compress a file programatically, using any API's
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> available on Mac?
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Mac OS 9, Mac OS X, System 6 ?
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You can use the zlib on 8,9,X.
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You can use Stuffit library on Mac OS < X. Not sure about its real
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availability on X.
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On X, you can use gzip with a task.
Yes, I agree here, but you can actually get the bzip2 source, which
compresses even better.
It's open source, and you can get it from sourceforge.
-If you need compression, I'd recommend this. :)
Love,
Jens
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Jens Bauer, Faster Software.
-Let's make the World better, shall we ?
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