Re: where is compress ?
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> From: Yves Arrouye <Yves.Arrouye@marin.fdn.fr>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: where is compress ?
> Date: Wednesday, September 18, 1996 11:20 PM
>
> 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.
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