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From: dales@teksce.SCE.TEK.COM (Dale Snell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: COMPRESS
Summary: "It's in there!"
Message-ID: <2845@teksce.SCE.TEK.COM>
Date: 16 Nov 89 20:43:23 GMT
References: <1066@psc90.UUCP>
Reply-To: dales@teksce.SCE.TEK.COM (Dale Snell)
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In article <1066@psc90.UUCP> pyr464@.UUCP (Fred Slama) writes:
|
|Say.. Could someone give me some idea where to find UNCOMPRESS for the\
|amiga? I DLed COMPRESS, but no UNCOMPRESS utility. Are you supposed to
|use COMPRESS by itself or with an argument to UNCOMPRESS files with
|the .Z extention... ? Any help, hints, and/or money would be appreciated.\
|       

     You already have it.  There's two ways to invoke uncompress.  One,
type 'compress -d <filename>' to uncompress <filename>.Z.  Two, make a
copy of compress and name it uncompress.  Compress looks at the command
line to find out how it was called, and responds apropriately.  In
fact, there is a third function in compress, called 'zcat'.  This does
an uncompression of the file, but sends the output to stdout, instead
of another file.  Pipe it into more, and you can read compressed files
without uncompressing them onto the disk.  (Unix systems do this by
having one copy of compress, and then using symbolic links to it named
uncompress and zcat.  Oh, for symbolic links on my Amiga...)

|					Thanks,
|						Fred (pyr464!psc90.uucp)

     You're welcome.  I hope this helped.

                                    --dds

Dale D. Snell      dales@teksce.SCE.TEK.COM      74756.666@compuserve.COM