[Sunhelp] gunzip - to uncompress

David Eisner cradle at Glue.umd.edu
Fri May 26 12:08:57 CDT 2000


You could just use 'gzip -d' instead of gunzip.  In fact, I believe
gunzip and gzip are the same executable.

-David

On Fri, 26 May 2000, Raju Gogula wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I am on newly installed Solaris 7. I want to uncompress .gz files. I have
> downloaded gzip and inturn it is again having .gz extension. Alternately, I
> found gunzip command in 
> one of the directories with
> -rw-r--r--	1 	root	other	60472	gunzip
> 
> But  I cannot to run this program, as it is not executable. Any help?
> 
> Raju

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