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From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: Compression format of AIX
Message-ID: <113@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM>
Date: 5 Oct 89 17:11:01 GMT
References: <13906@well.UUCP> <1113@ks.UUCP>
Reply-To: dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
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In article <1113@ks.UUCP> drake@ibmarc.UUCP (Sam Drake) writes:
>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.

You certainly *DON'T* need a BSD source license.  compress/etc. are
available with the B News distribution as well as in the comp.sources
archives available on UUNET.

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Steve Dyer
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