ilan343@violet.berkeley.edu (Geraldo Veiga) (06/27/91)
I am having a problem with the new version of compress just posted to comp.sources.misc. If I try the following: zcat junk.junk (a compressed file without .Z) When I interrupt the execution before completion, "junk.junk" is deleted. "zcat" works as expected if the file terminates with a ".Z". I am running ISC 2.2 (SVR3), and compress was compiled with gcc with the switches in the distribution Makefile.
weyh@laser.ladwp.UUCP (Darwin C. Weyh) (06/28/91)
ilan343@violet.berkeley.edu (Geraldo Veiga) writes: >I am having a problem with the new version of compress just posted to >comp.sources.misc. >If I try the following: >zcat junk.junk (a compressed file without .Z) >When I interrupt the execution before completion, "junk.junk" is >deleted. "zcat" works as expected if the file terminates with a ".Z". Yeah I had the same problem on Intergraph's CLIX 5.0 unix blend of SYSV and BSD. -- ============================================================================ Darwin C. Weyh -- Consultant for the Los Angeles Dept of Water and Power POB 111 Rm 848 Los Angeles, CA 90012 (213) 580-0822 ======================= elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ladwp!weyh ======================
wjc@hos1cad.ATT.COM (Bill Carpenter) (06/28/91)
ilan343> If I try the following: ilan343> zcat junk.junk (a compressed file without .Z) ilan343> When I interrupt the execution before completion, "junk.junk" is ilan343> deleted. "zcat" works as expected if the file terminates with a ".Z". I've seen this problem before. I don't know what the fix is, but a workaround is to do: zcat < junk.junk That is, use redirection on the command line. -- Bill Carpenter att!hos1cad!wjc or attmail!bill