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Old 05-24-2006
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A word of warning on the compress command - "compress afile.txt" will compress "afile.txt" and rename it "afile.txt.Z", the original afile will no longer exist. So, if you need access to the original after compression, make a copy first!
The uncompress command (or compress -d) works whether you specify afile.txt or afile.txt.Z