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- From: thompson@PAN.SSEC.HONEYWELL.COM ((jt) John Thompson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
- Subject: re: Favourite DOMAIN/OS features (or mis-features)
- Message-ID: <199207281604.AA11993@pan.ssec.honeywell.com>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 16:04:20 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
- Organization: The Internet
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- Since I've now received 2 e-mails requesting info on the compress filetype at
- pre sr10.4 releases, I'm answering to comp.sys.apollo too.
-
-
- > :)> How do you use the 'compress' feature on DOMAIN/OS? I come from the
- > :)> Unix side of the universe and don't use 'typeing features of the
- > :)> filesystem.
- >
- > :)Compress a file using the standard /usr/ucb/compress routine.
- > :)Change the type on it to be compress, by using '/etc/obty pathname... compress'
- > :)Use the object.
- >
- > John, is this something new to 10.4 or has it been there for a while
- > (i.e. 10.3 and up, 10.1 and up) and just one of those things I've had to
- > wait years to learn from some reply to a reply on the net?
-
- This is a 10.4 feature. There is no particular reason that I'm aware of preventing
- it from existing at 10.[123], or even at 9.x. However, it wasn't written then.
-
- From an implication that I read in to a message, I would have doubts as to whether
- you could simply install the new type on a pre-10.4 machine. You could certainly
- do it, but I don't know whether it'd work. Regardless, I'm not gonna try it.
-
-
- -- jt --
- John Thompson
- Design Services Engineer / Sys-Admin
- Honeywell, SSEC
- Plymouth, MN 55441
- thompson@pan.ssec.honeywell.com
-
- What do I know? I'm just a Token Administrator.
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