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From: fnf@fishpond.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: UNCOMPRESS
Message-ID: <131@fishpond.UUCP>
Date: 2 Oct 88 05:11:57 GMT
References: <4357@louie.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: fnf@fishpond.UUCP (Fred Fish)
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In article <4357@louie.udel.EDU> SAC.509LGX@e.isi.edu writes:
>Is UNCOMPRESS available for the amiga?  I see COMPRESS on FF 51 but no uncompress.

Compress and uncompress are really the same program.  To compress a file you
use the command:

	compress foo

to decompress you use the command:

	compress -d foo

Optionally, if compress notices that its name is really "uncompress", then
the -d is unnecessary.  On UNIX, the files "compress" and "uncompress" are
links to the same executable.  On the Amiga you can copy "compress" to
"uncompress", if you want to waste the disk space to avoid typing "-d".

-Fred
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