ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson) (03/18/88)
Why does compress produce whatever.ext.Z rather than z/whatever.ext? It would seem that the z/whatever.ext approach would avoid problems with 14-character filename limits on some UNIX systems and with doubly dotted filename problems on MS-DOS systems. -- ado@vax2.nlm.nih.gov ADO, VAX, and NIH are Ampex and DEC trademarks
les@chinet.UUCP (Leslie Mikesell) (03/19/88)
In article <8031@elsie.UUCP> ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson) writes: >Why does compress produce whatever.ext.Z rather than z/whatever.ext? My choice would be to encode the old filename inside the file and shorten the new filename if necessary. Les Mikesell