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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Import data from compressed file Post 52416 by norsk hedensk on Thursday 17th of June 2004 10:47:35 PM
Old 06-17-2004
youll probably need to uncompress it. do you have a cd burner? possibly if the resultant file will fit on cd, you can uncompress it there. however i havent toyed much with mounting a cdr and writing to it as regular directory...so youll have to figure that one out.
 

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compress(1)						      General Commands Manual						       compress(1)

Name
       compress, uncompress, zcat - compress and expand data

Syntax
       compress [ -f ] [ -v ] [ -c ] [ -b bits ] [ name ...  ]
       uncompress [ -f ] [ -v ] [ -c ] [ name ...  ]
       zcat [ name ...	]

Description
       The  command reduces the size of the named files using adaptive Lempel-Ziv coding.  Whenever possible, each file is replaced by one
       with the extension .Z, while keeping the same ownership modes, access, and modification times.  If  no  files  are  specified,  the
       standard input is compressed to the standard output.  Compressed files can be restored to their original form using or

       The  -f	option	will  force  compression  of  name, even if it does not actually shrink name, or if the corresponding name .Z file
       already exists.	If the -f option is omitted, the user is asked whether an existing name.Z file should be  overwritten  (unless	is
       run in the background under

       The -c (cat) option makes compress/uncompress write to the standard output without changing any files.  Neither -c nor alter files.

       The  command  uses  the modified Lempel-Ziv algorithm.  Common substrings in the file are first replaced by 9-bit codes 257 and up.
       When code 512 is reached, the algorithm switches to 10-bit codes and continues to use more bits until the limit specified by the -b
       flag is reached (default 16).  The bits must be between 9 and 16.  The default can be changed in the source to allow to be run on a
       smaller machine.

       After the bits limit is attained, periodically checks the compression ratio.  If the ratio is  increasing,  continues  to  use  the
       existing  code  dictionary.   However,  if  the	compression ratio decreases, discards the table of substrings and rebuilds it from
       scratch.  This allows the algorithm to adapt to the next block of the file.

       Note that the -b flag is omitted for since the bits parameter specified during compression is encoded within the output along  with
       a number that ensures that neither decompression of random data nor recompression of compressed data is attempted.

       How much each file is compressed depends on the size of the input, the number of bits per code, and the distribution of common sub-
       strings.  Typically, text such as source code or English is reduced by 50-60%.  Compression is  generally  much	better	than  that
       achieved by Huffman coding or adaptive Huffman coding, and takes less time to compute.

       The -v option displays the percent reduction of each file.

       If  an  error  occurs,  exit  status is 1.  However, if the last file was not compressed because it became larger, the status is 2.
       Otherwise, the status is 0.

Options
       -f   Forces compression of name.

       -c   Makes compress/uncompress write to the standard output.

       -b   Specifies the allowable bits limit.  The default is 16.

       -v   Displays the percent reduction of each file.

Diagnostics
       Usage: compress [-fvc] [-b maxbits] [file ...]
       Invalid options were specified on the command line.

       Missing maxbits
       Maxbits must follow -b.

       file: not in compressed format
       The file specified to uncompress has not been compressed.

       file: compressed with xx bits, can only handle yy bits
       The file was compressed by a program that could deal with more bits than the compress code on this machine.   Recompress  the  file
       with smaller bits.

       file: already has .Z suffix -- no change
       The file is assumed to be compressed already.  Rename the file and try again.

       file already exists; do you wish to overwrite (y or n)?
       Type y if you want the output file to be replaced; type n if you do not.

       uncompress: corrupt input
       A SIGSEGV violation was detected which usually means that the input file is corrupted.

       Compression: xx.xx%
       Percent of the input saved by compression.  (For the -v option only.)

       -- not a regular file: unchanged
       If the input file is not a regular file (for example, a directory), it remains unchanged.

       -- has xx other links: unchanged
       The input file has links; it is left unchanged.	See for more information.

       -- file unchanged
       No savings is achieved by compression.  The input remains unchanged.

Restrictions
       Although compressed files are compatible between machines with large memory, -b12 should be used for file transfer to architectures
       with a small process data space (64KB or less).

								       RISC							       compress(1)
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