From: Frédéric Drouillon
Subject: [AL] lzip.tar.gz
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 12:36:30 +0200

hello

i would like to try the new allegro 5.0 ut it's Lzip-ed and Lzip is tar.gz compressed. How to uncompress a file.tar.gz ?

Thank
Fred

 
From: Vincent Penquerc'h
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 11:49:28 +0100

i would like to try the new allegro 5.0 ut it's Lzip-ed and Lzip is tar.gz compressed

Not sure if I understand this, but ...

How to uncompress a file.tar.gz ?

With tar and gzip:
cat allegro.tar.gz | gzip -dc | tar xvf -
or:
tar xvfz allegro.tar.gz

 
From: "Elias Pschernig"
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 13:24:50 +0200

Not sure if I understand this, but ...

Look at the news from 3 days ago at http://allegro.cc, and you will :)

 
From: Vincent Penquerc'h
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 12:40:03 +0100

ROFL It was concievably believable until this:

- We're better than SDL now.
Then I knew it was fake ;)
 
From: "Chris Barry"
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 06:13:36 -0600

I caught on when it mentioned GameCube and XBox support ;)

 
From: Alex Badiu
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 16:11:15 +0300

Hello Frédéric,

There is no Allegro 5.0 yet. That was just an April Fools' joke.

 
From: Laurence Withers
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 14:14:39 +0100

LZIP is an amazing format, isn't it? They sometimes manage to compress files down to 0 bytes!

http://lzip.sf.net/
Bye for now,
- --
Laurence Withers, http://www.lwithers.demon.co.uk/
 
From: xaviergonz@ho...
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 16:24:43 +0200

Almost as amazing as *nix rm or dos del, but lzip has the advantage that it keeps the filename =)

 
From: Bob
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 21:54:31 -0500

So really, they could have reduced the size of the lzip program by converting to a:

echo. > file.ext
(or echo "" > file.ext under Unix)

Hey, a 19 byte compressor!

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- Robert J Ohannessian
"Microsoft code is probably O(n^20)" (my CS prof)
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From: Lo'oRiS il Kabukimono
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 23:35:08 +0200

No. Compressing to 0% is an optional feature. AFAIK u can chose other rates as well. 

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From: Bob

Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 21:50:42 -0500

Ah but you see, if you could have un-lzipped Allegro 5, you'd get the hardware accelerated mind control feature. This would let you know how to un-lzip Allegro by simply ordering any of the people who've figured it out to do it for you :)

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- Robert J Ohannessian
"Microsoft code is probably O(n^20)" (my CS prof)
http://pages.infinit.net/voidstar/