Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!cbnewsh!hoswjc!wjc
From: wjc@hos1cad.ATT.COM (Bill Carpenter)
Subject: Re: Bug in compress 4.1
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1991 21:00:47 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Jun27.210047.18350@cbnewsh.cb.att.com>
In-Reply-To: ilan343@violet.berkeley.edu's message of 26 Jun 91 22: 31:13 GMT
References: <1991Jun26.223113.2005@agate.berkeley.edu>
Sender: bill@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (william.j.carpenter)
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ilan343> If I try the following:
ilan343> zcat junk.junk  (a compressed file without .Z)
ilan343> When I interrupt the execution before completion, "junk.junk" is
ilan343> deleted.  "zcat" works as expected if the file terminates with a ".Z".

I've seen this problem before.  I don't know what the fix is, but a
workaround is to do:

	zcat < junk.junk

That is, use redirection on the command line.
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  Bill Carpenter         att!hos1cad!wjc  or  attmail!bill