Bug in compress 4.1

Bill Carpenter wjc at hos1cad.ATT.COM
Fri Jun 28 07:00:47 AEST 1991


ilan343> If I try the following:
ilan343> zcat junk.junk  (a compressed file without .Z)
ilan343> When I interrupt the execution before completion, "junk.junk" is
ilan343> deleted.  "zcat" works as expected if the file terminates with a ".Z".

I've seen this problem before.  I don't know what the fix is, but a
workaround is to do:

	zcat < junk.junk

That is, use redirection on the command line.
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  Bill Carpenter         att!hos1cad!wjc  or  attmail!bill



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