OT: compatibility of compress between SCO OS5 & Red Hat Linux

[John Esak]

I wrote an article about big-little-endian in The Guru.  I'll have a look
for it, but there isn't much to know. If the systems are similar, no
problems. If not, conversion is required.

John



> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com]On
> Behalf Of Dennis Malen
> Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 12:05 PM
> To: Fairlight; Filepro_List
> Subject: Re: OT: compatibility of compress between SCO OS5 & Red Hat
> Linux
>
>
> I just got back from a business trip and saw this post.
>
> My understanding from Ken Brody is that if the key or data was
> created with
> an intel machine then fine (whether compressed or not). If data
> or key was
> created on different machines then the endian problem is real and
> you must
> use FPTransfer.
>
> Hopefully Ken can clarify this again.
>
> Dennis Malen
> 516.479.5912
> ----- Original Message -----
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> Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 1:34 PM
> Subject: Re: OT: compatibility of compress between SCO OS5 & Red Hat Linux
>
>
> > Confusious (Scott Walker) say:
> >> I have a filepro key file that I want to transfer between several
> >> machines running SCO OS5 and Red Hat Linux.  Since the key file is
> >> large, I would like to use "compress" to condense it's size (on my SCO
> >> box it takes it from 13mb to about 500kb in size).  I'm just wondering,
> >> is the "compress/uncompress"  command on SCO compatible with it's
> >> counterpart on Red Hat.  In other words, can I compress the file on my
> >> SCO box and successfully uncompress it on a Red Hat box.  How about the
> >> other way around?
> >
> > Compress is standard between all same-endian platforms, at a minimum.
> >
> > mark->
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