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From: melby@daffy.yk.Fujitsu.CO.JP (John B. Melby)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,rec.humor
Subject: Re: does a zgrep exist? (zgrep <> zcat | grep)
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Date: 20 Feb 91 17:59:07 GMT
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In-reply-to: lucrezi@univaq.sublink.org's message of 20 Feb 91 00:30:21 JST

>> Following this trend you'll have a z<everything> ... sort of like
>> r<everything> (rsh, rcp ...).
>
>Why rule out some nifty programs such as zsh, ...

You forgot zftp (just don't forget to set binary mode, or nothing will
work... :-) )

(Disclaimer:  If zftp happens to exist, ignore the above comment.)

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John B. Melby
Fujitsu Limited, Machida, Japan
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