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From: ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Why does compress produce whatever.ext.Z rather than z/whatever.ext?
Message-ID: <8031@elsie.UUCP>
Date: 17 Mar 88 17:56:23 GMT
Organization: NIH-LEC, Bethesda, MD
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Why does compress produce whatever.ext.Z rather than z/whatever.ext?
It would seem that the z/whatever.ext approach would avoid problems with
14-character filename limits on some UNIX systems and with
doubly dotted filename problems on MS-DOS systems.
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