Debian Bug report logs - #274922
zcat should work properly against non-gzipped files

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Package: gzip; Maintainer for gzip is Milan Kupcevic <[email protected]>; Source for gzip is src:gzip (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Stephen R Laniel <[email protected]>

Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 19:03:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: upstream, wontfix

Merged with 255634

Found in versions 1.3.5-7, 1.3.5-9

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Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> That's cool, but shouldn't zcat behave just like zgrep and
> the others? [...] Why are the interfaces different?

I don't know why they are different, but I don't think it would be a 
good idea to change them now. Only $DEITY knows how many scripts could 
be broken by such change.

-- 
Ciao, Flavio



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