Re: where is compress ?

[Yves Arrouye <Yves.Arrouye@marin.fdn.fr>]

     I'm trying to compile a X-Window program which provides a new set of fonts.
   To generate its fonts, it uses the following command (approximately ;) ):

   bdftopcf machin.bdf | compress > machin.pcf.Z

   But I don't have compress on my Linux box.
   I tried moving to gzip without success because mkfontdir doesn't handle gzip
   format :-( Therefore I need compress!
   Is there any Debian package I can install that includes it ?

Because BSD compress might conflict with Unisys licensing of LZW, it is
not included in the Debian distribution. There is a compress-package
available, though, that, after you have got sources for compress (for
example the compress.tar.12 file that can be found on some GNU archives),
will help you build a Debian compress package, as in:

	% cd /usr/src/compress/compress-4.0
	% make-cpkg
	[...]
	% dpkg -i ../bsd-compress_4.0-1_i386.deb

Yves.