> from googling around, some pages tell me that gzcat is same as zcat ? zcat decompresses .Z compressed files created by the "compress" command. Compress is not shipped in free software systems due to a patent held on LZW compression held by Unisys.
gzcat decompresses .gz compressed files created by the "gzip" command. gzip was designed to be a replacement for "compress" which did not use the LZW algorithm. The LZW algorithm is quite old and thus is slowly losing patent protection. -- Glen Turner <http://www.gdt.id.au/> Tel: 0416 295 857 or +61 416 295 857 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
