[6319] in SIPB bug reports
Re: zipping files
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Nygren)
Sun Mar 9 23:56:11 1997
To: adstrom@MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 09 Mar 1997 18:15:04 EST."
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Date: Sun, 09 Mar 1997 22:03:05 EST
From: Erik Nygren <nygren@MIT.EDU>
> My disk quota is used up by picture files. My friend said I could
> gzip them, but xterm says the command is not found. How do I get
> the pics to take up lest space so I can read my mail?
If you type:
add gnu
gzip foo
then it should compress the file foo into "foo.gz" and remove "foo".
You will probably need some space left in order to do this
(while it is doing the gzipping, both files need to fit in your account).
Note that you are unlikely to compress the files by any noticable
amount if they are gifs or jpegs (which are already compressed).
Erik
