> > There should be one zcat and it should always be gzip. This won't > break anything as gzip understands .Z files... > > Making zcat point to compress even sometimes will definitely break > things; IME much of the Linux world has been assuming it's gzip for a > number of years. That seems unlikely to change.
Ok, I've corrected that: I build a package without any of the commands provided by gzip. > compress is obsolete software; there's never any need to use it to > uncompress things. Indeed, my experience (err, on Sunos rather than > Linux, so this may not be relevant) is that gzip is much more reliable > even at uncompressing .Z files. I can't see the need to compress > things using compress either, as gzip produces smaller output, runs on > pretty much everything and is free. Only one need: compress X font files, until someone makes the X font-reading stuff aware of gzip. YA.
