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. -- thanks, Danny G Smith ========================================================== UNIX Systems Administrator Crystallography Dept. Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation phone (405)271-8954 fax (405)271-7953 ========================================================== UNIX air conditioned environment, keep the windows closed
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. - -- Thibaut Cousin E-mail : cousin@in2p3.fr Web : http://clrwww.in2p3.fr -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9uBgCv1vqsTa1E4oRAhoCAJwLdtUQdVzag1AMpffDHOJcuPFwSgCeJ0WE 1LVB0LcMEnHPiQIzHUteAWo= =i3Zd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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
Due to some sort of licensing issues this utility was not included with SuSE 8.1. I have a install procedure that uses compress as opposed to gunzip simply due to the fact that even the most primitive Unix boxes tend to have it. I feel your pain. I have not yet upgraded to 8.1. Try snagging an older SuSE box if available and getting compress and uncompress from there. I am curious to see if it works. If you do not have a version I can send you one. On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 11:24, Danny G Smith wrote:
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.
-- thanks, Danny G Smith
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* Danny G Smith (dgs@omega.omrf.ouhsc.edu) [021024 08:31]:
I have not been able to find compress. I would have thoutht that it would install by default.
Please at least attempt to use the archives, I answered this a couple weeks ago: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=suse-linux-e&m=103402046001329&w=2 -- -ckm
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