Thanks to everyone for all the refs :-)))
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Miki Shapiro
Aladdin Knowledge Systems
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Sex. Unix. Snowboarx.
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On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> 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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> http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir
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