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In AT&T Unix, Sun Solaris, there is a console command "pcat" for Huffman compression. This command is used in "man" command. Unfortunately there is no such command in Linux. (this ...
  1. 04-01-2007 #1
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    Smile PCAT command replacement in Linux

    In AT&T Unix, Sun Solaris, there is a console command "pcat" for Huffman compression.
    This command is used in "man" command.
    Unfortunately there is no such command in Linux.
    (this command is NOT related to TCT package).

    gzip/gunzip are command for Huffman compression.
    Is it possible to replace "pcat" command with bash scripts using "gzip/gunzip" command?
    Thank you.
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    Hi.

    I have used gzcat on files compressed with /bin/pack on Solaris 8. It appears that gzcat looks at the file content (magic number) and not the filename, so it probably works with most compression schemes ... cheers, drl
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