> Hey folks,
>
> Please don't scold me if I am asking a very stupid
> question. =)
>
> I am now handling some sort of text files,
> however, they are eating me a lot of harddisk.
>
> I tried to using PACK, however, I found that I cannot
> unpack it if I pack the file with "B" or "H"...
>
> Would anybody have any ideas or examples can tell me??
> Thank you very very much and thousands sorry if I am
> really stupid.....
>
pack is not meant for the job you're looking at. It's used to convert
ASCII data into binary Why don't you use standard compression packages
like,
1. gzip (on all unix systems)
2. bzip2 (best but not avbl on all systems--our DEC OSF v4.0 doesn't have
it).
HTH,
-tir
