Gzip for Solaris large files

There is a right version of gzip and a wrong one. You can run gzip -V or gzip --version to find the version you have.

The right version is 1.3, compiled with large file support.
The wrong version (which is still around in many places) is 1.2.4.

The wrong version will not properly compress large files, such as we produce when we backup a whole machine. Be sure to check all the versions in your path. If you need to obtain a correct one, it is on piemonte in /usr/local/bin.

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Last Revised: 24 May 2003
Riccardo Serafin