ncompress: An improved version of compress¹

Compress is a fast, simple LZW file compressor. Compress does not have the highest compression rate, but it is one of the fastest programs to compress data. Compress is the defacto standard in the UNIX community for compressing files.

... part of T2, get it here

URL: https://ncompress.sourceforge.io

Author: Peter Jannesen <peter [at] ncs [dot] nl>
Maintainer: Rene Rebe <rene [at] t2-project [dot] org>

License: OpenSource
Status: Stable
Version: 5.0

Remark: Does cross compile (as setup and patched in T2).

Download: https://github.com/vapier/ncompress/ ncompress-5.0.tar.gz

T2 source: install-symlink.patch
T2 source: ncompress.cache
T2 source: ncompress.desc

Build time (on reference hardware): 1% (relative to binutils)²

Installed size (on reference hardware): 0.05 MB, 9 files

Dependencies (build time detected): 00-dirtree bash binutils coreutils diffutils findutils gawk grep gzip linux-header make patch sed tar

Installed files (on reference hardware): [show]

¹) This page was automatically generated from the T2 package source. Corrections, such as dead links, URL changes or typos need to be performed directly on that source.

²) Compatible with Linux From Scratch's "Standard Build Unit" (SBU).