____ _____________        1  File Decompression



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        NAME:   lzdcmp -- File Decompression

        SYNOPSIS:

                lzdcmp [-options] [infile [outfile]]

        DESCRIPTION:

                lzdcmp decompresses files  compressed  by  lzcomp.   The
                documentation   for  lzcomp  describes  the  process  in
                greater detail.

                Options may be given in either case.

                -B      Output file is "binary", not text.  (Ignored  in
                        VMS  private  mode.)  On  VMS,  this generates a
                        stream file without carriage-control attributes.
                        On Decus C systems, it generates a "fixed block,
                        512 byte record" file.  It is unneeded on Unix.

                -F      Output file is "fixed block, 512 bytes." This is
                        used  only  by  VMS for reading files created by
                        Unix  compress  or  by  "export"  mode.   It  is
                        identical to binary on Decus C.

                -X 3    To read files compressed by an old Unix  version
                        that doesn't generate header records.

                -V val  Verbose (print  status  messages  and  debugging
                        information).   The  value selects the amount of
                        verbosity.  See  the  lzcomp  documentation  for
                        details.

                VMS COMMAND LANGUAGE INTERFACE:

                        In addition to the  above  (Unix-style)  command
                        line  interface,  lzcomp  supports a VMS command
                        line  interface.   The  following  options   are
                        available:

                        /EXPORT=(VMS, UNIX, HEADER)

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                        /MODE=(TEXT, BINARY, FIXED)

                        /SHOW=(ALL, PROGRESS, STATISTICS, FDL,
                                        DEBUG, DEBUG_SERIOUS, DEBUG_IO)

                VMS PRIVATE MODE:

                        If the file was compressed in VMS private  mode,
                        all  information  needed to reconstruct the file
                        is stored in the compressed file, using the  VMS
                        run-time  library FDL routines.  This means that
                        the expanded file will have the  same  name  and
                        directory  location  it  had originally.  If the
                        directory structure does not exist (for example,
                        because  you  have  moved the compressed file to
                        another machine), you must  specify  the  second
                        argument to lzdcmp to specify the file name.

                AUTHOR:

                        This version by Martin Minow.   See  lzcomp  for
                        more details.