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Re: [HACKERS] doc troubles.

Marc Fournier <scrappy@hub.org>

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From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
To: "Thomas G. Lockhart" <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
Cc: Darren King <darrenk@insightdist.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-03-03T18:26:34Z
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On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Thomas G. Lockhart wrote:

> Well, can't "uncompress" work with gzip'd files? I recall that it can, but that
> may have been on a box (Dec Alpha?) with some upgraded "uncompress" capabilities.
> If it can work, then we should do something like
> 
>   uncompress -c file.tar.gz | tar xf -

	gzip -cd will uncompress 'compressed' files, but compress can't
touch 'gzip'd files...