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- From: alanc@ocf.berkeley.edu (Alan Coopersmith)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
- Subject: Re: compress file type (was: Favourite DOMAIN/OS ...)
- Date: 25 Jul 1992 19:23:10 GMT
- Organization: U.C. Bezerkeley Overloaded Computing Facility
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- Message-ID: <14s9muINN8p@agate.berkeley.edu>
- References: <199207241945.AA23289@pan.ssec.honeywell.com> <BCR.92Jul25124722@hpl3sn02.cern.ch>
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- In article <BCR.92Jul25124722@hpl3sn02.cern.ch> bcr@cernapo (Bill Riemers) writes:
- )> Compress a file using the standard /usr/ucb/compress routine.
- )> Change the type on it to be compress, by using '/etc/obty pathname... compress'
- )
- )a88k:3% /etc/obty stupid.1.Z compress
- )?(obty) Unable to get type uid for type "compress" - type not found (object based systems/type manager)
- )
- )Could you elaborate on how to make the compress file type?
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- Make sure you're running Domain O/S 10.4 (use the bldt command to see what
- version you have).
-
- )Will the files be accessable to fortran programs directly? (Emacs already uncompresses
- )text files ...)
-
- They will show up as normal files, with one major difference - they are
- read-only (no editing).
-
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