I'm not sure, but i thought that gzip can handle compressed files....
Yes gzip can handle it, but that doesn't solve my core problem. I work at a software company and we make software that runs on Linux as well as pretty much all other flavours of Linux. We use compress/uncompress to extract and install the software - the call to uncompress is part of the install shell script. Problem is, gziup isn't available on all Unix platforms - whereas compress is. I installed SUSE 10.0 on Friday... today I try a test install of our software, and.. it fails because uncompress isn't there. Like I said, I can hack the installer to use zcat (gzip) and it all works... but that's a single instance hack... and doesn't help anyone else who might try to install on SUSE 10. So... that still leaves me with the question... what happened to that old fashioned compress/uncompress app? I'm wondering if I missed it in the installer... or if it was dropped. C.