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System Management Guide: Operating System and Devices


Compressing Files

Several methods exist for compressing a file system:

Files are compressed for the following reasons:

Procedure

To compress the foo file and write the percentage compression to standard error, type:

compress -v foo

See the compress command for details about the return values but, in general, the problems encountered when compressing files can be summarized as follows:


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