Info: Viewing compress files
Jake Patterson <jpa...@mole.uvm.edu> wrote: > >That was great! I have a hint though. You can avoid having to uncompress >the file by using zcat instead of cat. Just type 'zcat aquarium.vt.Z' This >saves alot of disk space! (ascii animations compress very well, sometimes as >much as 10 to 1) You can view animations, color pics, and regular ASCII pic, whether they are .Z or .gz with zact and gzcat. It's a real space saver. -- ::::::: :::::: :::::::: :::::::: :::::: :::::: :::::::: :::::::: ::: ::: ::: iii iii iii iii iii iii iii iii iii iii iii iii iii iii iii ||||||| ||| |||||||| |||||||| ||||| ||| |||||||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| !!!!!!! !!!!!! !!! !!! !!! !!! !!!!!! !!!!!! !!! !!! !!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!
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