From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] compress, zcat, pack, compact
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 09:45:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010820094518.C17724@cackle.proxima.alt.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cej-1010820092147.A01245@cejchan.gli.cas.cz>; from pac on Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 09:21:47AM +0200
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 09:21:47AM +0200, pac wrote:
>
> The gunzip manpage says, that gunzip cannot treat other compression methods than gzip's deflate.
> It really complains about some of .Z
>
From the NetBSD man page:
Gunzip can currently decompress files created by gzip
zip, compress, compress -H or pack. The detection of
the input format is automatic... (some noise about bad
compress).
> Yes, I know. It's my favourite compression format.
>
It's catching on, I guess it will do it faster than Gzip did.
> >>
> >> Amusingly, WinZIP has my admiration, too. It really handles a
> >> phenomenal range of storage formats. I think it fails on
> >> BZIP2, which is perplexing.
>
> I don't and won't use Windoze....
Some of us don't get a choice. And it gives us something to
bitch about :-)
++L
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-20 7:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <cej@cejchan.gli.cas.cz>
2001-08-17 14:29 ` pac
2001-08-17 16:52 ` Scott Schwartz
2001-08-17 17:00 ` Lucio De Re
2001-08-20 7:21 ` pac
2001-08-20 7:45 ` Lucio De Re [this message]
2001-08-20 13:15 Russ Cox
2001-08-20 15:08 ` Lucio De Re
2001-08-20 15:12 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-08-20 15:38 ` Lucio De Re
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2001-08-17 14:19 rob pike
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