From: Gilbert Nardo (gil@netcom.com)
Date: 06/29/93 

From: gil@netcom.com (Gilbert Nardo)
Subject: Re: gzip & CD-ROMs
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1993 18:18:57 GMT

Michael Hemy (mhemy+@cs.cmu.edu) wrote:
: I think this is an interresting question:
: How do you gunzip a [BIG] file that is on a CD-ROM?
[rm stuff]
: What we need (IMHO) is for gzip to take an argument of a directory
: where to put the files, and yes, I know that this is not a linux-specific
: issue.

        redirection and piping exists in Linux, please use them.

        Try

         gunzip < /cdrom/BIGFILE > EVENBIGGERFILE

        or if tar'ed

         gunzip < /cdrom/BIGFILE.tgz | tar tf - 

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