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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: COMPRESS
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Date: 19 Nov 89 23:03:42 GMT
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In <9980.AA9980@heimat>, sneakers@heimat.UUCP (Dan "Sneakers" Schein) writes:
>  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.

I agree, though I would probably still continue to use my ARexx script that
front-ends for uncompress. It builds the command line if it's a file I name in
the args, and uncompresses everything in a directory if I specify a directory.

-larry

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