On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Miki Shapiro wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm looking for library or proggie sources under GPL that
> can handle the following compression formats (I want to use it in a
> commercial product):
>
> zip, .gz, .Z - I know zlib can handle these.
> lzh (SCO compress) - I an not sure about zlib, butI know gzip handles
> it. Since gzip rides over zlib, I assume it is also handled by zlib.
>
> tar - gnu tar handles this.
>
> arj -- ??? - directions?
> rar -- ??? - directions?
> ace -- ??? - directions?
> bz and .bz2 - ??? - directions?
>
> I would be very thankful for directions, pointers to websites, RFC's
> and FM's to RT (please don't send me to gnu.org, their search engine
> doesn't know diddly squat about rar and arj) and corrections to what I
> already understood.
http://freshemat.net/ proved very useful. The search engine can use some
improvements, but for simple, one-word, searches, it is good enough.
Also: considering the fact that most of the useful software for linux has
alsready been packaged before:
http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html : Many of the pages of rpm packages have
pointers to the original package's homepage. Many packages (spesifically:
all of redhat's and MAndrake's ) also include source packages, which
include a source tarball.
http://packages.debian.org/ can be useful as well, but it misses links to
the original packages' homepages.
--
Tzafrir Cohen
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