Old Standard Compression Utilities

Edit Package ncompress

This package contains the compress and uncompress utilities as
described in POSIX. They were the standard on old UNIX systems and are
obsoleted by gzip today

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ncompress.changes 0000008290 8.1 KB
ncompress.spec 0000001952 1.91 KB
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Dominique Leuenberger's avatar Dominique Leuenberger (dimstar_suse) accepted request 888392 from Martin Pluskal's avatar Martin Pluskal (pluskalm) (revision 8)
- Update to version 5.0:
  * New stream for cleanups
  * Drop support for 2.0 output & -C option
  * Improve & fix recursive mode
  * Drop old DEF_ERRNO support
  * Drop DIRENT/SYSDIR config knobs
  * Drop support for REGISTER build knob
  * Drop support for explicit unaligned memory accesses
  * Drop support for dead operating systems
  * Fix Windows access fallback logic
  * Include io.h on Windows
  * Disable "deprecated" API warnings on Windows
  * Add setmode binary for stdin and stdout on Windows
  * Clean up help text a bit
  * Add a standard -k (keep) option
  * Use io.h fallbacks on mingw too
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