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From: kron@aiki.Eng.Sun.COM (Kenneth Kron)
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Subject: Uncompressing to stdout (was Re: oops)
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Date: 31 May 90 21:13:40 GMT
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In article <9005300339.AA23506@brillig.UMD.EDU>, don@CS.UMD.EDU (Don Hopkins) writes:
>Oops, I meant to say that "uncompress < spin/zoom.raw.Z | mapper -
>..." doesn't work for some stupid reason. I tried putting dd between
>the two processes, but I still couldn't get it to work. Does "mapper"
>need to be taught to try harder, or is there some other way to make it
>work? 
>
>	-Don


You should be using zcat instead of uncompress.  uncompress specifically
wants to uncompress 1 file to another (it truncates the ".Z").
zcat on the other hand will uncompress a file to a pipe.


Good luck
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Kenneth Kron     (kron@eng.sun.com)
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