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PACK(1)                     General Commands Manual                    PACK(1)



NAME
       pack, pcat, unpack - compress and expand files

SYNOPSIS
       pack [ - ] file ...

       pcat [ file ] ...

       unpack file ...

DESCRIPTION
       Pack  attempts  to  compress the files and places the results in correā€
       sponding files named file.z with the  same  access  modes,  dates,  and
       owner as the originals.  Successfully packed files are removed.

       Unpack reverses the process.

       Pcat unpacks files to the standard output by analogy with cat(1).

       The .z suffix may be omitted from the name of the input file for unpack
       or pcat.

       Pack encodes individual characters in a Huffman code.  Option -  causes
       statistics  of  the  encoding to be printed.  The option toggles on and
       off at each appearance among the list of files.

DIAGNOSTICS
       The return value of pack, unpack, or pcat is the  number  of  files  it
       failed  to process.  No packing happens when the input can't be read or
       appears to be packed already, the output file name  exists  or  is  too
       long or can't be created, or the input has links or is a directory.



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