topic Re: Compress in Operating System - HP-UX

Compress

Prabhu_7 — Thu, 12 Jun 2003 15:44:35 GMT

what will the following do

COMPRESS EXT

Re: Compress

Patrick Wallek — Thu, 12 Jun 2003 15:47:53 GMT

It won't do anything because the command is in upper case.

If it were lower case like:

# compress EXT

It would compress the EXT file and create a new file called EXT.Z

Re: Compress

Dario_1 — Thu, 12 Jun 2003 15:49:56 GMT

Hi!

used propertly (lowercase) will create a compress file

EXT.Z

Regards,

Dario

Re: Compress

Dario_1 — Thu, 12 Jun 2003 15:50:11 GMT

Hi!

used propertly (lowercase) will create a compress file

EXT.Z

Regards,

Dario

Re: Compress

Dario_1 — Thu, 12 Jun 2003 15:51:04 GMT

Hi!

used propertly (lowercase) will create a compress file

EXT.Z

Regards,

Dario

Re: Compress

Dario_1 — Thu, 12 Jun 2003 15:53:43 GMT

Sorry for all the replies, I am having connection problems.

Regards,

Dario

Re: Compress

twang — Thu, 12 Jun 2003 15:55:14 GMT

1. to compress file:
root@wmo_a# ll
-rw-r--r-- 1 ora dba 3711277 May 31 16:35 tmp.txt
root@wmo_a# compress tmp.txt
root@wmo_a# ll
-rw-r--r-- 1 ora dba 336469 May 31 16:35 tmp.txt.Z

2. you may uncompress file as below:
root@wmo_a# uncompress tmp.txt.Z
root@wmo_a# ll
-rw-r--r-- 1 ora dba 3711277 May 31 16:35 tmp.txt

Re: Compress

Paul Sperry — Thu, 12 Jun 2003 15:55:28 GMT

comperss EXT will compress
the file EXT and rename it EXT.Z

Re: Compress

Paul Sperry — Thu, 12 Jun 2003 15:57:04 GMT

think of it as a unix zip