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From: Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@cs.elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: How to gunzip a binary on the fly
To: szekeres@fornax.hu
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 21:03:53 +0100 (MET)
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Istvan Szekeres wrote:
[...]
>         eval "$(gunzip -c $1)"
[...]
> ps: Maybe the shell creates a temp file or pipe for the output of gunzip, I
> can't check it right now.

No it doesn't.

Zoltan