gzip-133.txt  -- GNU zip 1.3.3 for Minix posted March 2003 
ported by Claudio Tantignone  <ctantignone@hotmail.com>

Complete package to download is gzip-133.tar.Z

Note added by ASW 2005-02-15: although the notes below indicate bash is 
needed, I found that copying /usr/bin/ash to /usr/local/bin/bash provided 
the support necessary to compile the gzip package. I did not have to
chmem bash from its default memory allocation.

gzip 1.3.3 for Minix
====================

The Makefile is ready to compile gzip under your environment.

It was configured like

./configure CC=cc CFLAGS="-wa -i -m -D_MINIX -D_POSIX_SOURCE" -LDFLAGS="-s -i -stack 256k"

(be sure to be all in the same line)

You need bash because configures find it and use it for instalation.
Also check that bash have sufficient memory with the size command.
I configured the following and works

  text	  data	   bss	 stack	memory
258832	 90712	 12096	327676	689316	/usr/local/bin/bash

I was running gzip version 1.2.4 with stack size of 256k without problems.
Check the output files when you use gzip.

This gzip version is near end to be beta, use at your own risk.

I had a special version of ls but configure also needs the standard ls command
that comes with minix in /usr/bin. Check which ls are you running with the
command

# which ls

This source code is basically the same you can download from GNU site. The
only change is that some sources have compilation errors that there are
not type identifiers. I added the 

#include <sys/types.h>

before the unistd.h include and everything works.

Enjoy!

Claudio.