2007/8/11, Ken Jennings <ken_jennings@bellsouth.net>:
On Saturday 2007-08-11 02:36, Marcus Meissner wrote:
On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 01:26:04AM -0400, Ken Jennings wrote:
openSuse 10.2 2.6.18.8-0.5-default #1 SMP Fri Jun 22 12:17:53 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Is compress/uncompress really not available in the distro? I went to install it and Yast Software Management won't show me any package that either provides or is named "compress". Oddly, the man pages are installed.
Yes, I know compress is a lame, old program. But, I'm working with some .Z files from a customer and the normally cooperative zcat objects to decompressing and displaying them. Can anyone tell me where to find current source for compress? I found a web site with some source labelled 4.3d from 1990. "$@(#) compress.c,v 4.3d 90/01/18 03:00:00" Is this current?
.Z should be decompressible with zcat / gunzip just fine.
Thanks. But I'm trying to prove to a client that they did something to their .Z files. The not-entirely-technical management types think I'm suspect if I can't show them something named "compress" with a version number.
"ncompress" contains the old compress/uncompress.
Where is that? It does not appear to be part of the distro. A search in Yast shows nothing named ncompress and no RPM that provides ncompress.
This site: http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=ncompress shows a number of RPMs for several distros. None of them is a suse. Are the Red Hat RPMs good for openSuse? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
You can rebuild the src available here (or just use the already compiled for Suse 9.3): http://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/mirrors/opensuse/guru/packages/Utilities/nc... Regards, Ciro -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org