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nitroguy

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Registered: 2009-10-16

Posts: 16

compress (not gzip!)

Please correct me if I am mistaken but it looks like compress is just a wrapper for gzip.  Instead of deflating/inflating .Z files it works with .gz files.  Is there a way to get the old-school compress on Arch Linux?

Thanks in advance!

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: compress (not gzip!)

Make a PKGBUILD for http://ncompress.sourceforge.net/ (hope it's the correct website / app).

The difference between gzip and compress is not about the suffixes but the algorithms used - 'man gzip' for details.

Last edited by karol (2010-12-17 00:51:31)