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From: Eric Dorman eld@jew...
Subject: [9fans] vdexpand/vdsqueeze
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 11:54:01 -0700


> I'm trying to build a new set of distribution flops
> from the update plan9 stuff.  The script calls
> 'vdsqueeze' which I can't find anywhere.  Any clues
> where I can find this animal?

I've never asked the group; guess I should have.  I just
used gzip in place of vdsqueeze and 'gzip -d' in place
of vdexpand and rebuilt the installation stuff.
The sources for gzip can be found on the ftp site at

ftp://ftp.ecf.toronto.edu/pub/plan9/forsyth/pub/gzip.tar

This has worked in installs on machines with as little
as 5Mb of memory.

> thanks,
> Tom Bohannon
> Cisco Systems, Inc.

Regards,

Eric Dorman
edorman@ucs...