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From: brister@decwrl.dec.com (James Brister)
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Subject: Re: does a zgrep exist? (zgrep <> zcat | grep)
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Date: 15 Feb 91 23:22:51 GMT
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In-Reply-To: Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM's message of 15 Feb 91 22:21:13 GMT
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On 15 Feb 91 22:21:13 GMT, Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM said:

> Following this trend you'll have a z<everything> ... sort of like
> r<everything> (rsh, rcp ...).  Sort of a bad road to follow too far I
> guess.

Given that one of the laws of computer operations states that data will
expand to fill all available space on a disk, I'd say that this road is a
necessary path to take.

James
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James Brister                                           brister@decwrl.dec.com
DEC Western Software Lab., Palo Alto, CA    {uunet,sun,pyramid}!decwrl!brister
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