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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.kei.com!ub!rutgers!uwvax!oka.cs.wisc.edu!jcargill From: jcargill@oka.cs.wisc.edu (Jon Cargille) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: GZIP Message-ID: <1993May10.153428.10815@cs.wisc.edu> Date: 10 May 93 15:34:28 GMT References: <1sehj6INNc1m@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> <vp.736888892@news.forth.gr> Sender: news@cs.wisc.edu (The News) Organization: Univ. of Wisconsin CS Dept Lines: 24 In article <vp.736888892@news.forth.gr> vp@terpsi.csi.forth.gr (Vassilis Prevelakis) writes: >edmudama@athena.mit.edu (Eric Danforth Mudama) writes: > >>I have found out that I need gzip to uncompress the patches... Where >>can I get it? > >You already HAVE it. Its inside that huge gzipped patchkit you have. >Ironic isn't it? So you can either ftp the source from prep.ai.mit.edu, >yes its one of 'em GNU stuff :-) or look in the site where you got >the patchkit, if they have the kit expanded the binary you need >is .../patch/bin/gzip (the same binary compresses and decompress, >run it with gzip +help to see a summry of options). There's another, possibly simpler way to get it. A pre-built binary of "gunzip" for 386bsd is available for anon-ftp from alpha.gnu.ai.mit.edu:386bsd/gunzip Jon -- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. Jon Cargille jcargill@cs.wisc.edu Want your .sig compressed? Reasonable rates and fast turnaround. Call today!