On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 08:13:40PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Aug 23 12:23, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: >> On Fri, 2013-08-23 at 17:09 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> >> > On Aug 23 16:11, Hubert Garavel wrote: >> > > >> > > Contrary to most Unix-like operating systems, Cygwin does not have >> > > the /bin/compress command installed by default and has no package >> > > to install it on demand. Cygwin has an uncompress command (that relies >> > > on gunzip), but no compress command to make genuine .Z files. >> > > >> > > This would be certainly easy to solve, using the work of the Ncompress >> > > project at http://ncompress.sourceforge.net/ >> > >> > Why not, but "somebody" (you?) will have to create and maintain the >> > 32 and 64 bit packages as the official Cygwin package maintainer. >> >> http://cygwin-ports.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=cygwin-ports/ncompress > >Assuming that you're willing to provide this package in the main distro... > >> Note that on Fedora, uncompress is provided by ncompress, not gzip, >> although that is not mandatory. > >...it would probably make a lot of sense to move uncompress from >gzip to ncompress. > >Chris, as gzip maintainer, do you have any problem with that?
Nope. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple