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From: drake@ibmarc.uucp (Sam Drake)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: Compression format of AIX
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Date: 4 Oct 89 05:58:42 GMT
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Organization: IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose
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In article <13906@well.UUCP> gors@well.UUCP (Gordon Stewart) writes:
>Is it my imagination, or does AIX (RT) have its own idea of what file
>compression means? 

I think this is an AT&T-ism, not an AIX change.  SysV provides the
pack/unpack/pcat set of commands, while the BSD world has instead
compress/uncompress/zcat.  If you have access to a BSD source license,
compress et al can be ported in a matter of minutes, but they aren't
currently shipped with AIX/RT.

Sam Drake / IBM Almaden Research Center