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Subject: Re: [9fans] compress(1) missing?
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
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Date: Tue,  1 Oct 2002 17:04:27 -0400
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> Plan 9 system don`t have neither compress nor uncompress utils, for
> uncompressing *.Z files you can use gunzip, but you can`t create *.Z archives
> by using gzip.

as geoff points out, this is true of the unix gzip
but not the plan 9 gzip.  one tool for each format.