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From: jcargill@oka.cs.wisc.edu (Jon Cargille)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: GZIP
Message-ID: <1993May10.153428.10815@cs.wisc.edu>
Date: 10 May 93 15:34:28 GMT
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In article <vp.736888892@news.forth.gr> vp@terpsi.csi.forth.gr (Vassilis Prevelakis) writes:
>edmudama@athena.mit.edu (Eric Danforth Mudama) writes:
>
>>I have found out that I need gzip to uncompress the patches... Where
>>can I get it?
>
>You already HAVE it. Its inside that huge gzipped patchkit you have.
>Ironic isn't it?  So you can either ftp the source from prep.ai.mit.edu,
>yes its one of 'em GNU stuff :-) or look in the site where you got
>the patchkit, if they have the kit expanded the binary you need
>is .../patch/bin/gzip (the same binary compresses and decompress,
>run it with gzip +help to see a summry of options).

There's another, possibly simpler way to get it.  A pre-built binary
of "gunzip" for 386bsd is available for anon-ftp from

	alpha.gnu.ai.mit.edu:386bsd/gunzip

Jon
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