compress, uncompress no sim link to gunzip?

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Mike McMullen wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Scot L. Harris" <webid at cfl.rr.com>
> Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 1:57 PM
> Subject: Re: compress, uncompress no sim link to gunzip?
>
>
> > On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 14:19, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> >
> > > > See compress.1 and uncompress.1 in above package listing. What other
> > > > man pages have you found earlier and where?
> > > >
> > >
> > > Most likely compress.1p and uncompress.1p for POSIX, as included
> > > within the man-pages package (/usr/share/man/man1p).
> >
> > In a clean install of FC2 there are man pages for compress in
> > /usr/share/man/man1p.  But no executables for those commands.  I just
> > found that strange.
> >
> > I would have thought the man pages would be packaged with the
> > executables.
> >
> > Besides gunzip did the job in place of uncompress so I thought that
> > maybe a sim link had been missed.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Scot L. Harris
>
> I'm working on a clean install of FC2 and I just looked at my system. I have
> compress and uncompress man pages and executables. uncompress is symlinked
> to compress. gzip and gunzip are their own separate executables.
>
> I did a fresh install from ISOs and installed everything then updated the whole
> thing.
>

Installing everything installs the compress and uncompress RPMs.  The
compress and uncompress man pages are in the man-pages RPM, which explains
their presence when the executables are absent.

-- 
		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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