compress / ncompress package for Cygwin

[Hubert Garavel <hubert dot garavel at inria dot fr>]

Contrary to most Unix-like operating systems, Cygwin does not have
the /bin/compress command installed by default and has no package
to install it on demand. Cygwin has an uncompress command (that relies
on gunzip), but no compress command to make genuine .Z files.

This would be certainly easy to solve, using the work of the Ncompress
project at http://ncompress.sourceforge.net/

My experience is that the code of ncompress-4.2.4.4 compiled perfectly
using a GCC 3 cross-compiler targeted to Mingw:
    $CC_WIN32-gcc -DDOS -D_IBMR2 compress42.c -o compress.exe

It is likely that compiling with Cygwin would be even easier.

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