Re: aix compressed psuedo floppies

Hi Art,

Oh well! I thought maybe this would work. Has anybody tried any
experimenting along this line, and found anything useful? I periodically
have to move enough data that the 2G file size limit for an uncompressed
psuedo floppy is very incovenient.

Not sure about AIX but D3 Linux compressed pseudo-floppies ("p" in
/usr/lib/pick/pick0) writes files that can be uncompressed with gunzip.
Depending upon your distro you might have to rename the files to have a
".gz" extension:
$ mv filesave filesave.gz
$ gunzip filesave.gz

As I remember D3 for Linux links "compress" to "gzip" and "uncompress"
to "gunzip" during installation. This may not be the case on AIX. You
might want to try both gunzip and uncompress from the command line.

HTH,
-Tom

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