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4.17 How do I change the Workspace compression app?

Change it with the given method.

[Stephen Peters ]

You can change the tools that the Workspace uses to create and read its .compressed files by issuing the following commands in a terminal window:

[Reuven M. Lerner reuven@the-tech.mit.edu]

This is generally a good thing, except that people might follow your advice and then try to send NeXTmail to someone who is still using compress/uncompress. Changing Workspace/uncompress to gunzip isn't a problem, since it uncompresses all sorts of files, but people should be very careful not to change Workspace/compress to gzip unless they will only be dealing with other gzip-equipped users.

• (weiter mit 4.18 console: loginwindow: netinfo problem - No such directory.)