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From: keh@bsd.au.ac.th (Mr. Santithorn Bunchua)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Where is gunzip ???
Date: 20 Aug 1993 19:09:14 +0800
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Carl F. Voll (cvoll@lucpum.it.luc.edu) wrote:


> In the XFree86-1.3 installation FAQ you are directed to enter a piped command
> of which part of references a command called "gunzip"  since I get an error
> on that command, I can only assume it is in some other distribution set
> (likethe ETC dist.)  Does anyone know where I can find it?

Actually gzip is included in 386bsd distribution in /usr/src/contrib/gzip.
There you will find the source code. The program will compile to gzip.
For gunzip, you just link the 'gzip' to the name 'gunzip'. The same program
serves both compression and decompression. Or you can use gzip -d to
decompress.

For newer version, you can get using anonymous FTP from anywhere that
provides anonymous FTP for GNU programs.