GZIP.Z Install & Use on AIX 4.3.3.11

Install Procedure

Using Windows XP download gzip.1.2.4a.tar.Z and burn to CD
On RS/6000 7011-250 put CD in
# mount /cdrom
# cd /cdrom
# ls shows it as gzip_1_2.z   (why the file name change by AIX see ULI notes below)
# cd /
# mkdir /gzipaix
# cp /cdrom/gzip_1_2.z /gzipaix
# unmount /cdrom
take Cd out of drive
Now file has to be uncompressed because uncompress will only work on capital Z files not z files.
You must be in the folder of the file to use uncompress on and do name change
# cd /gzipaix
# mv gzip_1_2.z gzip_1_2.Z
# uncompress gzip_1_2.Z
# ls shows it as gzip_1_2 the actual operating program


Use Procedure

You must be in folder where the file to be unzipped is.

# /gzipaix/gzip_1_2 xxxxxxx    where xxxxxx is the file to be unzipped 

Uli Notes

(1)On WinXP you can *not* create a Rockridge Filesystem with UNIX naming
conventions for CD-ROMs. On Windows you'll see the Joliet Filesystem, which
is ignored by AIX.
AIX falls back the ISO9660 instead.
That's why the filenames seem to change.

(2)"inutoc" needs to be run before smitty installation of AIX' installp
packages on Read-Only media. If the directory is writeable, the ".toc" file
will be created without calling "inutoc" before. If there is no installp
package in the directory "inutoc" won't extract any headers from the
packages to resolv interpackage dependancies. Nothing happens.

If a package isn't in AIX' installp package format. So inutoc won't
help anything and you cannot install/deinstall it through smitty.

(3)If a file is executable, the permissions must be set executable too.

$ file gzip
gzip:           executable (RISC System/6000) or object module

$ls -la gzip
-rwxr-xr-x   3 root     system     66303 Sep 08 2003  gzip

You can make a file executable in the filesystem by

$chmod 755 gzip

755 is equivalent to -rwxr-xr-x  

(4)"smitty" install the package "rpm.rte" version 3.0.5.36 and you'll have gzip, bzip2 on your
system.