compress, uncompress no sim link to gunzip?

Alexander Dalloz alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de
Thu Sep 16 14:42:00 UTC 2004


Am Do, den 16.09.2004 schrieb Scot L. Harris um 16:32:

> While installing a java application on FC2 today I encountered an error,
> the script was unable to find the command uncompress.  (compress was
> also missing)
> 
> I resolved the problem by modifying the script to use gunzip instead.  
> 
> I did find man pages for compress and uncompress.  
> 
> The question is should there be sim links for compress and uncompress to
> gzip and gunzip?
> 
> Is this worth filing a bug report?

> Scot L. Harris

Hi Scott,

there is

http://wftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/fedora-core/2/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/ncompress-4.2.4-35.i386.rpm

$ LANG=C rpm -qpl ncompress-4.2.4-35.i386.rpm
/usr/bin/compress
/usr/bin/uncompress
/usr/share/doc/ncompress-4.2.4
/usr/share/doc/ncompress-4.2.4/LZW.INFO
/usr/share/doc/ncompress-4.2.4/README
/usr/share/man/man1/compress.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/uncompress.1.gz

Alexander


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