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From: fangchin@leland.Stanford.EDU (Chin Fang)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Can't get X386 to Work
Message-ID: <1991Apr12.082210.17316@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 12 Apr 91 08:22:10 GMT
References: <1991Apr6.235457.20710@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> <1991Apr6.235952.20862@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> <179@bria.UUCP>
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In article <179@bria.UUCP> mike@bria.UUCP (Mike Stefanik/81920) writes:
>In an article, silver.ucs.indiana.edu!mitchemt (Terry Mitchem) writes:
>|I forgot to ask about this in my first post.  What format are the
>|man pages in? I got files such as xwud.n.z.  Are these compressed or what?
>|I tried renaming it so xwud.n.Z and compress said the file was not in
>|compressed format. Thanks in advance, Terry
>
>Files with a lower-case '.z' are usually compressed using the pack(1) tool,
>while an upper-case '.Z' indicated the compress(1) tool.
>
I did a strings /usr/bin/X11/xman |grep pcat just to assure myself that 
Thomas compiled in pcat in xman.  Yes he did.  The original MIT source 
uses compress(1).  So I think if anyone wants to use *.Z format, the building
the original probably is the way to go.

Chin Fang
Mechanical Engineering Department
Stanford University
fangchin@leland.stanford.edu