Compress

[Prabhu_7]

what will the following do

COMPRESS EXT

[Patrick Wallek]

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

[Dario_1]

Hi!

used propertly (lowercase) will create a compress file

EXT.Z

Regards,

Dario

[Dario_1]

Hi!

used propertly (lowercase) will create a compress file

EXT.Z

Regards,

Dario

[Dario_1]

Hi!

used propertly (lowercase) will create a compress file

EXT.Z

Regards,

Dario

[Dario_1]

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

Regards,

Dario

[twang]

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

[Paul Sperry]

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

[Paul Sperry]

think of it as a unix zip