gunzip question

[Lord Vorp]

At 12:19 PM 3/22/97 -0800, Jim Balter wrote:
>Sheik wrote:
>> 
>> On Fri, 21 Mar 1997, Jim Balter wrote:
>> 
>> > Trey Jackson wrote:
>> > >
>> > > e.g. This is what I encounter:
>> > >
>> > >    C:\cygnus\H-i386-cygwin32\bin>gunzip resume.txt.gz
>> > >    GUNZIP.EXE: resume.txt.gz already has .gz suffix -- unchanged
>> >
>> > Subtle.  What command processor are you using?  For some reason it is
>> > passing the command name as "GUNZIP.EXE" instead of "gunzip",
>> 
>>  I have noticed this too, whats even odder still... run this puppy in
>> bash, and the problem goes away.

This is silly...I subscribed to this newsgroup to lurk awhile and learn,
and I already have an answer...<i think :>

Try gunzip -d...  the -d is for decompression.  Gunzip is actually Gzip
renamed... gzip defaults to compression.

Hope this helps!
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