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From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] compress, zcat, pack, compact
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In-Reply-To: <cej-1010820092147.A01245@cejchan.gli.cas.cz>; from pac on Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 09:21:47AM +0200
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 09:45:18 +0200
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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