Gzip..

[Jay Venkatanarayanan]

Hi,
Is there a latest version of GZIP program for HP/UX 11.11, certified by HP. Currently gzip version on 11.11 is V1.2.4. The problem with this version is, it does not allow to zip files more than 2GB.
Any help in this regards is greatly appreciated.

Thanks, Jay

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Yes,

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Gnu/gzip-1.3.5/

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Jay,

Try,

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Gnu/gzip-1.3.5/

The version is 1.3.5

Hope this helps.

Regds

[A. Clay Stephenson]

http://gatekeep.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Gnu/gzip-1.3.5/

[Jay Venkatanarayanan]

Thanks for the reply. Is the version 1.3.5 certified by HP or just Opensource/third party tool???

Thanks, Jay

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Jay,

I don't think this is a certified site. This site is for public domain / open source software ported to hp-ux.

Checkout the site background info,

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/answers/1-1.html

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Fred Ruffet · Accepted solution]

From www.gzip.org :
Version 1.2.4 (stable) released on 1999-02-03
Version 1.3.5 (devel) released on 2003-01-14

So 1.3.5 is not officially supported and not provided as so by HP, but is used for a long time by many. It is reported to work, and to work well.

I remember a patch from HP or gzip project to provide largefile support to 1.2.4 version, but I can't find it anymore.

Finally there's a workaround to 1.2.4 problem with largefile :
cat file | gzip > file.gz
(I believe this is due to the fact that problem doesn't really come from gzip code, but from the fstat call it does. If gzip doesn't open a file, it doesn't use fstat).

Regards,

Fred

[Jay Venkatanarayanan]

Thanks Sanjay & Fred.