Yves Arrouye writes: > Hmmm. This is somewhat more complex than it looks like. I cannot just > remove /usr/bin/zcat because it is intimately linked with compress. > If you say 'man compress' for example you'll get the synopsis for zcat > too and if the corresponding zcat would not be provided then I think > users can be confused.
I've found nothing in your zcat that GNU zcat can't do. > My opinion is that gzip should *not* provide /bin/zcat but rather > /bin/gzcat (and the same for other z* tools). The /bin/zcat program > is just *not* zcat, it also handles gzip files which the original > zcat program cannot do. I think that we should have /bin/gzcat (or But that means it can do more than the original one. So why not using this name? Michael -- Michael Meskes | _____ ________ __ ____ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | / ___// ____/ // / / __ \___ __________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \__ \/ /_ / // /_/ /_/ / _ \/ ___/ ___/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ___/ / __/ /__ __/\__, / __/ / (__ ) Use Debian Linux! | /____/_/ /_/ /____/\___/_/ /____/
