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From: neilg@fraser.sfu.ca (Neil K. Guy)
Subject: Re: Decompression help!
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Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1993 01:34:32 GMT
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unknown@apple.com (Matt Ackeret) writes:

>	Huh?  zcat is for cat-ing (viewing/piping/redirecting) compressed
>files without uncompressing them.

 Are you sure? My man page says this: (emphasis mine)

     Compress reduces the size of the named files using adaptive Lempel-Ziv
     coding.  [...] *Compressed files can be restored to their original
     form using uncompress or zcat.*

     [...]

     The -c (``cat'') option makes compress/uncompress write to the standard
     output; no files are changed.  *The nondestructive behavior of zcat is
     identical to that of uncompress -c.*

 ...so, yeah, zcat writes to standard output for viewing, but it is
decompressing the file, right? Or am I confused with terminology here?

 - Neil K.
