[Info-vax] quasijarus

[Arne Vajhøj]

Steven Schweda wrote:
> Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> .Z/.z indicates the LZW based Unix compress software.
> 
>    Note that gzip can expand a ".Z" file produced by
> "compress".
> 
> sol# cp -p .profile profil
> sol# compress profil
> 
> alp $ copy /ftp /binary sol"root xxxxxx"::profil.Z profil.Z
> alp $ gzip -d profil.Z
> alp $ type profil.
> #
> OS=` uname -s `
> 
> MAIL=/usr/spool/mail/$USER
> [...]
> 
> alp $ gzip --version
> gzip 1.3.12b
> [...]

I was not aware that GZIP could decompress that format.

And a bit surprising since GZIP was invented to avoid the
LZW patent.

(and Unisys did claim the patent also covered readers even
though other disagreed)

Arne