On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Mike McMullen wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Scot L. Harris" <webid@xxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 1:57 PM > Subject: Re: compress, uncompress no sim link to gunzip? > > > > On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 14:19, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > > > > > See compress.1 and uncompress.1 in above package listing. What other > > > > man pages have you found earlier and where? > > > > > > > > > > Most likely compress.1p and uncompress.1p for POSIX, as included > > > within the man-pages package (/usr/share/man/man1p). > > > > In a clean install of FC2 there are man pages for compress in > > /usr/share/man/man1p. But no executables for those commands. I just > > found that strange. > > > > I would have thought the man pages would be packaged with the > > executables. > > > > Besides gunzip did the job in place of uncompress so I thought that > > maybe a sim link had been missed. > > > > > > -- > > Scot L. Harris > > I'm working on a clean install of FC2 and I just looked at my system. I have > compress and uncompress man pages and executables. uncompress is symlinked > to compress. gzip and gunzip are their own separate executables. > > I did a fresh install from ISOs and installed everything then updated the whole > thing. > Installing everything installs the compress and uncompress RPMs. The compress and uncompress man pages are in the man-pages RPM, which explains their presence when the executables are absent. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
