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From: raf@PRC.Unisys.COM (Ralph A. Foy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: COMPRESS
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Date: 16 Nov 89 22:08:32 GMT
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From article <3073@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>, by cdouty@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Christopher Douty):
> 	Well...  The docs for version of compress I have say to copy
> compress to another file called (you guessed it) uncompress.  Suposedly the
> program checks its file name to decide if it should compress or uncompress
> stuff.  I believe that there is a command line flag, like '-u,' which causes
> 'compress' to uncompress things too.

the flag is '-d'. rather than making a copy of the compress command,
you may find it easier to just make an alias for uncompress which
invokes compress with the appropriate flag.

ralph