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Re: gzip and .xxx.nodups files
From: |
Stepan Kasal |
Subject: |
Re: gzip and .xxx.nodups files |
Date: |
Fri, 2 May 2003 09:48:45 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.2.5.1i |
Hello,
On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 06:37:25AM -0700, Bartel, Naomi R (N-Iroquoi Sys) wrote:
> I am using gzip 1.2.4 on an SGI and gzip 1.3 on LINUX.
>
> I copy someone else's zipped file to $TMPDIR/tempfilename and use 'gzip -d
> -f tempfilename' to unzip it. I use it and when I am done I delete the
> file named 'tempfilename'. I recently realized that not only is a temporary
> file created, but also another file called .tempfilename.nodups is also
> generated.
> Any insight you can give me into these *.nodups files would be greatly
> appreciated.
I tried to grep through gzip source for the string "nodups" and haven't
found anything. So I guess it may appear in connection with the copying
of the file. Which program do you use? scp (openssh or ssh?), or
wget, or just cp (which cp? ``cp --version'' or SGI cp?)?
Hope this helps,
Stepan Kasal
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