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Subject: Re: [9fans] compress(1) missing?
From: Geoff Collyer <geoff@collyer.net>
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Date: Tue,  1 Oct 2002 13:24:18 -0700
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That's what I thought at first, but it doesn't work:

; file antiword-0.33.tar.Z
antiword-0.33.tar.Z: compressed
; gunzip <antiword-0.33.tar.Z >/dev/null
gunzip: <stdin>: bad gzip file magic
; gunzip *.Z
gunzip: antiword-0.33.tar.Z is not a gzip deflate file

So I just dug up a copy of compress and compiled it under APE.