"Walther, Christoph" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >does somebody know, which packet of the Debian 2.2 -distribution >containes the wellknown UNIX-commands > >compress and uncompress ?
ncompress. They aren't installed by default because (a) they're allegedly encumbered by the Unisys patent on LZW and thus in the non-free section, and (b) gunzip, which is unencumbered itself, can decompress files created by 'compress'. gzip has been ported to pretty much every Unix platform, so there usually isn't a good reason to need ncompress. Just compress your files with gzip and decompress .Z files with gunzip. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
