Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!chinet!les
From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: zcat (Was pictures)
Message-ID: <7430@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 11 Jan 89 18:34:08 GMT
References: <1106@naucse.UUCP> <2984@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix
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In article <2984@cbnews.ATT.COM> mvadh@cbnews.ATT.COM (andrew.d.hay) writes:

>the ones that i've seen put the compress in the temporary installation
>directory; it gets blown away when install exits.

It gets installed with the terminfo disk and stays put.

>or
>b)	if compress is not already installed, you probably don't have
>	rights (?) to it.

I compiled the version from the news distribution with the shared library
and stripped it.  This produced a binary of exactly the same length as the
one from the terminfo disk.

Les Mikesell