Re: compress - contained in which packet?

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

"Walther, Christoph" <Christoph.Walther@telekom.de> wrote:
>does somebody know, which packet of the Debian 2.2 -distribution
>containes the wellknown UNIX-commands
>
>compress and uncompress ?

ncompress. They aren't installed by default because (a) they're
allegedly encumbered by the Unisys patent on LZW and thus in the
non-free section, and (b) gunzip, which is unencumbered itself, can
decompress files created by 'compress'.

gzip has been ported to pretty much every Unix platform, so there
usually isn't a good reason to need ncompress. Just compress your files
with gzip and decompress .Z files with gunzip.

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]