Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc! From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: compress 4.0 for the amiga Message-ID: <2204@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> Date: 9 Nov 90 20:11:01 GMT Lines: 34 Return-Path: To: van-bc!rnews In <4bFX02yd03bo01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>, ked01@ccc.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn) writes: >In article <35043@nigel.ee.udel.edu> JAGBDED%PANAM.BITNET@ricevm1.rice.edu writes: >> >> In Phil Kernic writes: >> >I have just posted compress for the amiga on NewXanth (abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov) >> >in the file /incoming/amiga/amipress.zoo >> > >> >The executable compress is also decompress and zcat, just copy it to >> >the other names for the other functions (oh for soft links...). > >Which were *supposed* to be "in there" for 2.0 ... but eveidently are NOT, from >what has been said here on c.s.a.*. Well, hard links work, which is better than no links at all. (or at least they do in the version I'm running.. I don't have 2.02 yet) >However for uncompressing, you *can* use "compress -d" with this version, which >will work just fine (though it isn't really documented in the man page). For >"zcat", I guess you still need to duplicate the binary using that name. Just make two hard links, either in the same directory as compress or in a directory on the same partition. I use a directory called 'C2' for links into C:. -larry -- It is not possible to both understand and appreciate Intel CPUs. -D.Wolfskill +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+