Re: [opensuse] compress? uncompress? Why are they gone?
On Aug 11, 07 01:26:04 -0400, Ken Jennings wrote: openSuse 10.2 2.6.18.8-0.5-default #1 SMP Fri Jun 22 12:17:53 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux Is compress/uncompress really not available in the distro? I went to install it and Yast Software Management won't show me any package that either provides or is named compress. Oddly, the man pages are installed. Yes, I know compress is a lame, old program. But, I'm working with some .Z files from a customer and the normally cooperative zcat objects to decompressing and displaying them. Can anyone tell me where to find current source for compress? I found a web site with some source labelled 4.3d from 1990.$@(#) compress.c,v 4.3d 90/01/18 03:00:00 Is this current? There is ncompress, it moved to opensuse build service in March 2007. Gunzip and its cousin zcat are supposed to do uncompress' job. Discussed in https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=252161 cheers, Jw. -- o \ Juergen Weigert paint it green! __/ _===.===_ V | [EMAIL PROTECTED] wide open suse_/_---|\/ \ | 0911 74053-508 (tm)__/ (//\ (/) | __/ _/ \_ vim:set sw=2 wm=8 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) This bug is visible to non-employees. Please be respectful. (bugzilla) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] compress? uncompress? Why are they gone?
On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 01:26:04AM -0400, Ken Jennings wrote: openSuse 10.2 2.6.18.8-0.5-default #1 SMP Fri Jun 22 12:17:53 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux Is compress/uncompress really not available in the distro? I went to install it and Yast Software Management won't show me any package that either provides or is named compress. Oddly, the man pages are installed. Yes, I know compress is a lame, old program. But, I'm working with some .Z files from a customer and the normally cooperative zcat objects to decompressing and displaying them. Can anyone tell me where to find current source for compress? I found a web site with some source labelled 4.3d from 1990.$@(#) compress.c,v 4.3d 90/01/18 03:00:00 Is this current? .Z should be decompressible with zcat / gunzip just fine. ncompress contains the old compress/uncompress. Ciao, Marcus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] compress? uncompress? Why are they gone?
Reading between the lines, you probable now have a GNOME desktop which does not have right click option for various compressions. Some compression programs are not installed under a basic GNOME install - search for the and they will be installed but not the handy right click on your file manager Scott Marcus Meissner wrote: On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 01:26:04AM -0400, Ken Jennings wrote: openSuse 10.2 2.6.18.8-0.5-default #1 SMP Fri Jun 22 12:17:53 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux Is compress/uncompress really not available in the distro? I went to install it and Yast Software Management won't show me any package that either provides or is named compress. Oddly, the man pages are installed. Yes, I know compress is a lame, old program. But, I'm working with some .Z files from a customer and the normally cooperative zcat objects to decompressing and displaying them. Can anyone tell me where to find current source for compress? I found a web site with some source labelled 4.3d from 1990.$@(#) compress.c,v 4.3d 90/01/18 03:00:00 Is this current? .Z should be decompressible with zcat / gunzip just fine. ncompress contains the old compress/uncompress. Ciao, Marcus smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: [opensuse] compress? uncompress? Why are they gone?
On Saturday 2007-08-11 02:36, Marcus Meissner wrote: On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 01:26:04AM -0400, Ken Jennings wrote: openSuse 10.2 2.6.18.8-0.5-default #1 SMP Fri Jun 22 12:17:53 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux Is compress/uncompress really not available in the distro? I went to install it and Yast Software Management won't show me any package that either provides or is named compress. Oddly, the man pages are installed. Yes, I know compress is a lame, old program. But, I'm working with some .Z files from a customer and the normally cooperative zcat objects to decompressing and displaying them. Can anyone tell me where to find current source for compress? I found a web site with some source labelled 4.3d from 1990.$@(#) compress.c,v 4.3d 90/01/18 03:00:00 Is this current? .Z should be decompressible with zcat / gunzip just fine. Thanks. But I'm trying to prove to a client that they did something to their .Z files. The not-entirely-technical management types think I'm suspect if I can't show them something named compress with a version number. ncompress contains the old compress/uncompress. Where is that? It does not appear to be part of the distro. A search in Yast shows nothing named ncompress and no RPM that provides ncompress. This site: http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=ncompress shows a number of RPMs for several distros. None of them is a suse. Are the Red Hat RPMs good for openSuse? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] compress? uncompress? Why are they gone?
2007/8/11, Ken Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Saturday 2007-08-11 02:36, Marcus Meissner wrote: On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 01:26:04AM -0400, Ken Jennings wrote: openSuse 10.2 2.6.18.8-0.5-default #1 SMP Fri Jun 22 12:17:53 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux Is compress/uncompress really not available in the distro? I went to install it and Yast Software Management won't show me any package that either provides or is named compress. Oddly, the man pages are installed. Yes, I know compress is a lame, old program. But, I'm working with some .Z files from a customer and the normally cooperative zcat objects to decompressing and displaying them. Can anyone tell me where to find current source for compress? I found a web site with some source labelled 4.3d from 1990.$@(#) compress.c,v 4.3d 90/01/18 03:00:00 Is this current? .Z should be decompressible with zcat / gunzip just fine. Thanks. But I'm trying to prove to a client that they did something to their .Z files. The not-entirely-technical management types think I'm suspect if I can't show them something named compress with a version number. ncompress contains the old compress/uncompress. Where is that? It does not appear to be part of the distro. A search in Yast shows nothing named ncompress and no RPM that provides ncompress. This site: http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=ncompress shows a number of RPMs for several distros. None of them is a suse. Are the Red Hat RPMs good for openSuse? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can rebuild the src available here (or just use the already compiled for Suse 9.3): http://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/mirrors/opensuse/guru/packages/Utilities/ncompress/ Regards, Ciro -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] compress? uncompress? Why are they gone?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2007-08-11 at 09:05 -0400, Ken Jennings wrote: On Saturday 2007-08-11 02:36, Marcus Meissner wrote: ncompress contains the old compress/uncompress. Where is that? It does not appear to be part of the distro. A search in Yast shows nothing named ncompress and no RPM that provides ncompress. You are right. Plus, there is a /usr/share/man/man1p/compress.1p.gz file that belongs to man-pages-2.41-11, but no compress binary anywhere. This site: http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=ncompress shows a number of RPMs for several distros. None of them is a suse. Are the Red Hat RPMs good for openSuse? But it can be found from here: http://benjiweber.co.uk:8080/webpin/ And there are two hits: Results from http://software.opensuse.org/download/Archiving/openSUSE_10.2 ncompress (4.2.4) Old Standard Compression Utilities Results from http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/dstoecker/openSUSE_10.2 ncompress (4.2.4) Fast compression and decompression utilities. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGvcTKtTMYHG2NR9URAjhSAJ0bpxlmC0q97VmgIJ7aDI5s3Z7MSgCgjWLd rMH8bEAhp8+RHQFcw1m+v0I= =t93m -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] compress? uncompress? Why are they gone?
openSuse 10.2 2.6.18.8-0.5-default #1 SMP Fri Jun 22 12:17:53 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux Is compress/uncompress really not available in the distro? I went to install it and Yast Software Management won't show me any package that either provides or is named compress. Oddly, the man pages are installed. Yes, I know compress is a lame, old program. But, I'm working with some .Z files from a customer and the normally cooperative zcat objects to decompressing and displaying them. Can anyone tell me where to find current source for compress? I found a web site with some source labelled 4.3d from 1990.$@(#) compress.c,v 4.3d 90/01/18 03:00:00 Is this current? Thanks, Ken Jennings -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
