From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 2 18:42:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0234537B401 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 18:42:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from topaz.mdcc.cx (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B9D343E65 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 18:42:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from edwin@mavetju.org) Received: from k7.mavetju (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by topaz.mdcc.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF8612B8BD; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 03:42:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: by k7.mavetju (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 05B066A712E; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 11:42:09 +1000 (EST) Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 11:42:08 +1000 From: Edwin Groothuis To: MET Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Command: compress || Issues Message-ID: <20021003014208.GF930@k7.mavetju> Mail-Followup-To: Edwin Groothuis , MET , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <002901c26a76$557b62f0$0200a8c0@SURVIVAL> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <002901c26a76$557b62f0$0200a8c0@SURVIVAL> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 08:46:39PM -0400, MET wrote: > I'm attempting to compress a file as I'm attempting to upload it. Oddly > this is for a class project. However, the command just isn't working. > Below is what I'm typing. > > compress lab5.tar > > I can see that it begins to make the file, but once the execution is > done the file disappears. Any ideas anyone? It should popup as lab5.tar.Z. See also the man-page of compress for more information. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Weblog: http://www.mavetju.org/weblog/weblog.php bash$ :(){ :|:&};: | Interested in MUDs? http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message