From: Karl-Heinz Zimmer (khz@snafu.de)
Date: Thu Jun 08 2000 - 22:32:09 CEST
Hallo Jef
am Donnerstag, 08 Jun 2000 schriebst Du:
> I tried the sugested command:
> gzip -d tempfile > /dev/ram3
> In theorie it might work, practically it doesn't.
> cat tempfile > /dev/ram3
> works O.K.
>
> Can anybody explain the difference to me?
The difference is this:
gzip -d tempfile > /dev/ram3
lets gzip decompress the tempfile (and while doing so
*replaces* the old tempfile by it's decompressed version)
and write it's C O M M E N T S to /dev/ram3 instead of
just sending them to stdout .
But you wanted something completely different: you wanted
to have the decompressed F I L E send to /dev/ram3
- not just the comments.
Try this:
gzip -cd tempfile > /dev/ram3
I am not sure about it but I hope this will work fine.
(Parameter -c tells it to write the decompressed
file to stdout so the > should be able to
send it to /dev/ram3 .)
Karl-Heinz
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