On Fri, 2013-08-23 at 17:09 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 23 16:11, Hubert Garavel wrote: > > > > Contrary to most Unix-like operating systems, Cygwin does not have > > the /bin/compress command installed by default and has no package > > to install it on demand. Cygwin has an uncompress command (that relies > > on gunzip), but no compress command to make genuine .Z files. > > > > This would be certainly easy to solve, using the work of the Ncompress > > project at http://ncompress.sourceforge.net/ > > Why not, but "somebody" (you?) will have to create and maintain the > 32 and 64 bit packages as the official Cygwin package maintainer.
http://cygwin-ports.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=cygwin-ports/ncompress Note that on Fedora, uncompress is provided by ncompress, not gzip, although that is not mandatory. Yaakov -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
