RE: Data Compression

["Meier, Robert" <Bob.Meier@fanucrobotics.com>]

unix-users,

>    When you use a compressor like gzip, you tell it:
> 
>   "Here is a file, or data area for you to compress.  Here's where it
> starts, here's how long it is.  Put the compressed version over there.
Come
> back when you're through."

	This is the batch mode of gzip normally used.  I believe that
gzip -c is a stream mode.  In the stream mode, AFAIK, you can
provide data in segments without specifying data lengths.  Further, I
believe, though did not test, that output starts before all input is
provided.

Dr. Robert J. Meier             FANUC Robotics North America
tel:+1.248.377.7469    mailto:robert.meier@fanucrobotics.com
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