Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 17:20:54 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Luis Rueda <lrueda@uwindsor.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Compact utility Message-ID: <20030703002054.GF83261@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <059401c340ab$12e13440$538ccf89@cspc1.uwindsor.ca> References: <059401c340ab$12e13440$538ccf89@cspc1.uwindsor.ca>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 11:02:52AM -0400, Luis Rueda wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to know where I can download the "compact" utility for OpenBSD unix. The one that I am looking for is the compression utility that implements the adaptive Huffman coding. > Any help on this will be greatly appreciated! FreeBSD is not OpenBSD. Try asking on an OpenBSD support forum. However, do you really want adaptive Huffman encoding specifically? The compress(1) manpage suggests it is inferior even to the compression algorithm used by compress, which is itself substantially inferior to other modern compression algorithms. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/A3blWry0BWjoQKURAq2VAKDYkfZ8S4JNpxaaQTjqNGr+hXa0AgCfRbmk c0kzo8vt3QU1i5aAwGHhc2A= =lOhF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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