Peter MacDonald says:
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> I have seen a small problem with compress.  uncompress *.Z fails to 
> uncompress some of the files specified.  Failure prints some 
> message like EINVAL or something (-; sorry, its been weeks)

I've seen this problem, too, but it's a little more consistent than
one might normally think:  compress fails (EINVAL) on every other if
passed a wildcarded argument.  That is "uncompress *Z" will give a
EINVAL error on every other file it tries.

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> But using uncompress afterwards on the individual file works.

It also works to repeat the command, answering yes to the questions
it asks, as it will on try and decompress the files that have been
decompressed.  It still misses every other file of the repeated
command, though.

Perhaps it's a bug in the port of compress?

Also, I've ported unzip, zoo, (un)yabba and a few other things to
Linux.  Any interest in putting these on tsx-11?  They were all pretty
painless, but it might save some people the trouble of compiling them.
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