On Aug 23 12:23, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > 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
Assuming that you're willing to provide this package in the main distro... > Note that on Fedora, uncompress is provided by ncompress, not gzip, > although that is not mandatory. ...it would probably make a lot of sense to move uncompress from gzip to ncompress. Chris, as gzip maintainer, do you have any problem with that? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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