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Re: gunzip question
- To: Jim Balter <jqb at netcom dot com>, Sheik <sheikyy at spartan dot pei dot edu>
- Subject: Re: gunzip question
- From: Lord Vorp <lordvorp at usa dot net>
- Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 15:50:45 -0800
- Cc: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- References: <Pine.LNX.3.91.970322062505.15981A-100000@spartan.pei.edu>
At 12:19 PM 3/22/97 -0800, Jim Balter wrote:
>Sheik wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 21 Mar 1997, Jim Balter wrote:
>>
>> > Trey Jackson wrote:
>> > >
>> > > e.g. This is what I encounter:
>> > >
>> > > C:\cygnus\H-i386-cygwin32\bin>gunzip resume.txt.gz
>> > > GUNZIP.EXE: resume.txt.gz already has .gz suffix -- unchanged
>> >
>> > Subtle. What command processor are you using? For some reason it is
>> > passing the command name as "GUNZIP.EXE" instead of "gunzip",
>>
>> I have noticed this too, whats even odder still... run this puppy in
>> bash, and the problem goes away.
This is silly...I subscribed to this newsgroup to lurk awhile and learn,
and I already have an answer...<i think :>
Try gunzip -d... the -d is for decompression. Gunzip is actually Gzip
renamed... gzip defaults to compression.
Hope this helps!
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