kron@aiki.Eng.Sun.COM (Kenneth Kron) (06/01/90)
In article <9005300339.AA23506@brillig.UMD.EDU>, don@CS.UMD.EDU (Don Hopkins) writes: >Oops, I meant to say that "uncompress < spin/zoom.raw.Z | mapper - >..." doesn't work for some stupid reason. I tried putting dd between >the two processes, but I still couldn't get it to work. Does "mapper" >need to be taught to try harder, or is there some other way to make it >work? > > -Don You should be using zcat instead of uncompress. uncompress specifically wants to uncompress 1 file to another (it truncates the ".Z"). zcat on the other hand will uncompress a file to a pipe. Good luck -- Kenneth Kron (kron@eng.sun.com) ----- The opinions I gave were mine, the opinions you form are yours.