OT: compatibility of compress between SCO OS5 & Red Hat Linux

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 03:24:56PM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
> >Compress is standard between all same-endian platforms, at a minimum.
> 
> Not true.  On current SuSE Linux distributions, compress is a shell scrpt
> that doesn't compress, but suggest one use gzip instead.

If you have it at all, apparently; I just checked my 9.2 install, and
even though I turned on a bunch of stuff, it's not there.

> I would use gzip.

Let's expand his comment to "if you have a real binary compress, it's
compatible".  :-)

Cheers,
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