On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 04:18:58PM -0500, Frank Newland wrote:
> Q:
> 1. Isn't CONTENTS a file handle to the uncompressed file?
No, it's a filehandle to the output of the compress command.
> 2. Why doesn't perl execute my while statement?
It does, but there's nothing to read, see below.
> 3.
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Frank Newland wrote:
> I want to print the contents of an archived file. When I run this script,
> all it does is uncompress my file.
>
> Q:
> 1. Isn't CONTENTS a file handle to the uncompressed file?
No. I think what you want is uncompress -c, which dumps the file to
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