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From: wagner@iaoobelix.UUCP
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Subject: Re: need man page for compress 4.0, et. - (nf)
Message-ID: <7800002@iaoobelix.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 22-Apr-87 03:21:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 22 03:21:00 1987
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Nf-From: iaoobelix!wagner    Apr 22 09:21:00 1987

[ I am posting this rather than emailing it just to the auther of the article
  because it might be of public interest...(?) ]

> /***** iaoobelix:comp.sources.w / pluto!warren /  6:13 pm  Apr 17, 1987*/
> Subject: need man page for compress 4.0, et. al.
...
> 						...a man for
> compress/decompress/zcat.  Could someone please send one?

I have emailed the compress*, uncompress*, and z* man pages.

> While I'm at it, anyone know why the Makefile doesn't create
> decompress and zcat?
>
> Disclaimer: I can read the source to find out how it works, I want
> this for the mere mortals who work here who read manuals.

My Makefile looks like 
   ...
   TARGETS = compress atob btoa
   SCRIPTS = zmore zcmp zdiff compressdir uncompressdir tarmail untarmail

   all:    $(TARGETS) $(SCRIPTS)
   ...
   install: $(TARGETS) $(SCRIPTS)
	   enter -f compress compress uncompress zcat
	   enter compressdir uncompressdir atob btoa tarmail untarmail
	   enter zmore zcmp zdiff
   ...

where `enter' is something like `install', using symbolic links. The -f option
forces `enter' not to install a number of files but a number of likes to the
same file.

As you can see above, `compress', `uncompress' and `zcat' are all links to the
same file (namely the one you get by compiling `compress.c'). If you
disregarded your disclaimer and had a look at the code you would find at line
430 or so two strcmps determining how the program was invoked...

Have fun,
Juergen Wagner,		     (USENET) ...seismo!unido!iaoobel!wagner
("Gandalf")			 Fraunhofer Institute IAO, Stuttgart