Re: pack/compress?

[Immanuel Yap <noelyap@ascus.cit.cornell.edu>]

On Mon Jun  7, 1999, Jonathan P Tomer wrote:
> it strikes me as odd that the standard potato doesn't seem to include the
> pack huffman coder or compress lzw compressor. while these are fairly
> obsoleted by gzip, especially as gunzip will read .z and .Z files, they
> still are mildly useful. am i blatantly wrong and there's actually some
> package containing them, or should i just write my own copies?

Look for the ncompress package.  It is in non-free due to certain
alleged patent restrictions.

Noel