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"SLC6X: applications/file: ncompress

ncompress - Fast compression and decompression utilities

Website: http://ncompress.sourceforge.net/
License: Public Domain
Vendor: Scientific Linux CERN, http://cern.ch/linux
Description:
The ncompress package contains the compress and uncompress file
compression and decompression utilities, which are compatible with the
original UNIX compress utility (.Z file extensions).  These utilities
can't handle gzipped (.gz file extensions) files, but gzip can handle
compressed files.

Install ncompress if you need compression/decompression utilities
which are compatible with the original UNIX compress utility.

Packages

ncompress-4.2.4-54.el6_2.1.x86_64 [23 KiB] Changelog by Ondrej Vasik (2012-01-13):
- use memmove instead of memcpy to prevent memory overlap corruption
 (#781973)

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