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uncompress.real
Manual page and help for the uncompress.real Linux command. The uncompress.real command unpacks the specified files - previously compressed with the compress command, with the extension .Z and beginning with a special encoding. The compress and its counterpart uncompres.real commands use an adaptive Lempel-Ziv compression algorithm.
Note that the program normally installed as uncompress is installed as uncompress.real on Debian systems to avoid conflicts with the more commonly used uncompress program of the same name, which is otherwise part of the gzip package.
Note that the program normally installed as uncompress is installed as uncompress.real on Debian systems to avoid conflicts with the more commonly used uncompress program of the same name, which is otherwise part of the gzip package.
compress
Manual page and help for the compress Linux command. The compress command compresses the specified files using adaptive Lempel-Ziv encoding. Whenever possible, the program replaces files with a .Z extension when compressing, while keeping the same ownership modes, access and modification times. On Debian systems, the command is not installed by default. To use it, you need to install the ncompress package.