Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!uunet!bywater!acheron!clarke From: clarke@acheron.uucp (Ed Clarke/10240000) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt Subject: Re: Compression format of AIX Message-ID: <1989Oct3.221135.21254@acheron.uucp> Date: 3 Oct 89 22:11:35 GMT References: <13906@well.UUCP> Organization: Ciliophora Associates Lines: 23 From article <13906@well.UUCP>, by gors@well.UUCP (Gordon Stewart): > Is it my imagination, or does AIX (RT) have its own idea of what file > compression means? Is there a way to uncompress standard .Z files > using AIX 2.2.1? If not, does anyone out there have a public domain version > of uncompress/zcat that I could have? I really would like to get at those > public domain sources which are stored in compressed format. 'compress' does not come with AIX in any flavor. You might be looking at packed ( ends with a lower case .z instead of an upper case one ) instead of compressed format. It's quicker/easier to unpack a file rather than to uncompress it. As far as I know, only man pages are normally packed. The packed format is almost always larger than a compressed version. 'compress' is part of 'B' news. It compiles easily ( but needs the -a compile option ) and works on AIX. The source is 35k - see if you can get it locally, otherwise I can send it to you. There is an 'uncompress'(?) or something that comes with the PL8 compiler. That's something totally different that I'm not familiar with. -- Ed Clarke acheron!clarke