--- "Johnson, Tracy" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> For the main file I had to get gzip from 3K associates.  Upload it on
> my HP3K, drop it in /SYS/HPBIN -then- build the link to /bin.   only
> to find out it wouldn't work against the unix file with the following
> garbage:
 
just an n.b.:

it is a 'bad idea(tm)' to put things into /SYS/HPBIN.  the same 'danger
will robinson' warning about putting things into .pub.sys apply.

imo, /usr/local/bin is a better location.  (in fact, i see all of my
gnu stuff installed there)

(the strange behaviour of gzip on your system makes me wonder if you
have a sane copy of gzip, but that is another conversation)   - d

Donna Garverick, HP-CSA   Sr. System Programmer
dgarverick -at- longs -dot- com
925-210-6631              Longs Drug Stores

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Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho'
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are.
"Ulysses", A. Tennyson

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