Thibaut Cousin wrote:
Le Jeudi 24 Octobre 2002 17:24, Danny G Smith a écrit :
I have not been able to find compress. I would have thoutht that it would install by default. I realize gunzip is a better compression tool. But some programs still call compress.
You're right, I haven't been able to find it in the CD. But you can make a symlink to gunzip, as gunzip is able to uncompress .Z archives. I didn't see anything about gzip being able to create a.Z archive, though. Another solution: there is a "ncompress" RPM package available on the web (I saw it on rpmfind.net) which claims to be 100% compatible with compress for creating and decompressing .Z archives.
I've got Stuffit, especially popular in the Mac world, but there is a Linux version too, available somewhere on http://www.stuffit.com. It compresses, extracts, encodes and decodes about everything. I guess it can be executed via 'compress' by means of a symlink, alias or one line bash script. To create a .Z archive: stuff --format=compress <filename> To decompress a .Z archive: unstuff <filename> The type of file is automatically determined here. SH