Subject: Re: gzip
To: RiscBSD <port-arm32@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@cus.cam.ac.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 01/23/1997 10:44:08
Olly wrote:
> it into actually unpacking a file.  And it doesn't work inside !MemFS,
> which would be bearable if it didn't delete the original file whenever
> it encountered an error.

Best thing for that is
*gzip -dc { > foo }
then at least you have a bit of uncompressed file left (hopefully text!)

Patrick