landon: compress

Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 14:24:11 -0400
From: David Trueman <david@cs.dal.ca>
To: CSuite Testing Reports <csuite-tech@chebucto.ns.ca>
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I have updated lynx and gzip to fix hese problems.  gzip now has an
install-csuite make target to properly install it.  lynx now excludes the
archaic Unix compress opttion.

On Sun, 23 Feb 1997, David J. Murdoch wrote:

> Testing compress function in the filebrowser for user aa001 on landon.
> The individual files used for this have been grabbed from the system using
> (P)rint
> Help/html-primer.txt
> Help/AuthorHTML/html_crash_course.txt
> Services/Training/majordomoGuide.txt
> 
>    [8]Compress (using Unix compress)
> the resulting compressed file has .gz extension
> uncompress will not work on a file compressed with this option
>    [9]Compress (using gzip)
> results in a file with .gz extension but
> uncompress will not uncompress this file
>    [10]Compress (using zip)
> produces a file with .zip extension
> uncompress works well with this type of compressed file.
> --
> 	David Murdoch
> 
> 
> 

  David Trueman,
    Systems Manager, Dalhousie Math, Stats and Computing Science
    Technical Chair, Chebucto Community Net



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