Re: slack2deb script and controversy

[Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi>]

> > 	uncompress (perhaps it is a non-free?)
> 
> I think (with my foot in my mouth) gzip now has a link for this.

compress is indeed non-free (it uses the algorithm that Unisys has a
patent for, the same one that is such a problem for GIF).  However,
for uncompressing, gunzip works fine.  From the manual page:

	gunzip  can  currently  decompress  files created by gzip,
	zip, compress, compress -H or pack
	
A link uncompress->gunzip might be nice, although I couldn't care less
for myself, since I rarely have to deal with .Z's anymore.  The link 
doesn't exist on my system, but I haven't upgraded anything in a while).

> >         zip/unzip libjpeg ?pbmlib netPBM  
> 
> These are all available.

Indeed; I have zip and unzip installed.  They're in the non-free directory.
(I don't know about the others for sure.)