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From: "E. Robert Tisdale" <edwin@netwood.net>
Subject: Re: UNIX Compressed Files From A PC
Date: 2000/08/14
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"Marin D. Condic" wrote:

> One day, when I get to be captain of the ship,
> I'm going to enjoy issuing arbitrary and capricious commands
> with a whimsical "Make It So, Number One!"
> and let someone else sweat the details. :-)

I still think that you've been given a little test and you're failing badly.

A UNIX programmer might type

    localhost$ zcat file.Z | rsh remotehost filter | compress >> /tmp/file.Z
    localhost$ mv /tmp/file.Z file.Z
    localhost$

at the UNIX prompt to run compressed file file.Z through your filter
on the remote host (the NT in this case).
I don't understand why you wasted your weekend on this problem
and I don't understand why your employer permits you to continue
wasting time on it.