Re: [Nolug] Debian is chewing on my head

From: Mark A. Hershberger <mah_at_everybody.org>
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 18:03:25 -0600
Message-ID: <8765fquenm.fsf@weblog.localhost>

Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:

> **** NOTE **** No Unix-ish utility that I know of add default
> extentions. Thus, you'll have to explicitly type out the *whole*
> filename.

"bzip2 file" creates file.bz2
"gzip file" creates file.gz

"gunzip file" takes file.gz and creates file
"bunzip2 file" doesn't take file.bz2 and create file

So, that your above statement isn't quite right.

Mark.

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