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From: les@chinet.UUCP (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Why does compress produce whatever.ext.Z rather than z/whatever.ext?
Message-ID: <3778@chinet.UUCP>
Date: 18 Mar 88 20:32:00 GMT
References: <8031@elsie.UUCP>
Reply-To: les@chinet.UUCP (Leslie Mikesell)
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In article <8031@elsie.UUCP> ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson) writes:
>Why does compress produce whatever.ext.Z rather than z/whatever.ext?


My choice would be to encode the old filename inside the file and shorten
the new filename if necessary. 

  Les Mikesell