Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!heimat!sneakers
From: sneakers@heimat.UUCP (Dan "Sneakers" Schein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: COMPRESS
Message-ID: <9980.AA9980@heimat>
Date: 18 Nov 89 01:53:47 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga
Organization: Sneakers Computing
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In Message <12053@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM>, raf@PRC.Unisys.COM (Ralph A. Foy) writes:
>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.

  Would the world not be a better place if we could simply (ala Unix) link
  'uncompress' to 'compress'? Somehow in my warped mind I think so.

  Thats my wish for 1.4 (and beyond ;-)

  Sneakers

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