compress, uncompress no sim link to gunzip?

Michael Schwendt fedora at wir-sind-cool.org
Fri Sep 17 06:36:53 UTC 2004


On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 16:57:44 -0400, Scot L. Harris wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 14:19, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> 
> > > See compress.1 and uncompress.1 in above package listing. What other
> > > man pages have you found earlier and where?
> > > 
> > 
> > Most likely compress.1p and uncompress.1p for POSIX, as included
> > within the man-pages package (/usr/share/man/man1p).
> 
> In a clean install of FC2 there are man pages for compress in
> /usr/share/man/man1p.  But no executables for those commands.  I just
> found that strange.

As discovered above, those are separate pages as shipped by the LDP's
man-pages package. Compare "man 1p compress" with "man 1 compress".
 
> I would have thought the man pages would be packaged with the
> executables.

They are.

> Besides gunzip did the job in place of uncompress so I thought that
> maybe a sim link had been missed.

A symlink in gzip would conflict with the ncompress package.

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