I tried to run "make" against gzip (1.2.4 -- not sure now where I 
     downloaded it from after having gone through so many sites...), and 
     got the following:
     
     usaxplj/root >make
     cc  -o gzip gzip.o zip.o deflate.o trees.o bits.o unzip.o inflate.o 
     util.o  crypt.o lzw.o unlzw.o unpack.o unlzh.o getopt.o  
     ld:
     Object file format error in: lzw.o: bad file magic number
     *** Exit 1
     Stop.
     
     The INSTALL file had some info about updating /etc/magic for using 
     gzip, but I didn't see anything about changes for make'ing it.
     
     Anyway, figuring that the object files provided were invalid for DUnix 
     3.2c, I compiled the .c versions of each .o file which appeared in the 
     make output (the log excerpt here is after I had compiled each program 
     up to lzw.c -- another weirdness: when I tried to run "cc -o xxxx.o 
     xxxx.c" I would get:
      Fatal error in: /usr/lib/cmplrs/cc/ld Segmentation fault - core       
      dumped
     so I would  "cc the xxxx.c" program (xxxx = generic program name), 
     then "mv a.out xxxx.o"  --- any pointers on that issue welcome ;-}  )
     
     Now after compiling all those indicated programs, here's how it went:
     
     usaxplj/root >make
     cc -c -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DDIRENT=1  getopt.c
     cc  -o gzip gzip.o zip.o deflate.o trees.o bits.o unzip.o inflate.o util.o  
     cryp
     t.o lzw.o unlzw.o unpack.o unlzh.o getopt.o  
     rm -f gunzip zcat
     ln gzip gunzip
     ln gzip zcat
     usaxplj/root >gunzip
     1731:gunzip: /sbin/loader: Fatal Error: cannot map gzip.o
     usaxplj/root >ls -l *zip*
     -rwxr-xr-x   3 4905     10         32768 Feb 27 16:36 gunzip
     -rwxr-xr-x   3 4905     10         32768 Feb 27 16:36 gzip
     -rw-r--r--   1 root     system   1013760 Feb 27 15:39 gzip-1.2.4.tar
     -rw-r--r--   1 4905     10         13923 Aug 18  1993 gzip.1
     -rw-r--r--   1 4905     10         52560 Aug 19  1993 gzip.c
     -rw-r--r--   1 4905     10         15695 Aug 18  1993 gzip.doc
     -rw-r--r--   1 4905     10         10619 Aug 13  1993 gzip.h
     -rw-r--r--   1 4905     10         35587 Aug 18  1993 gzip.info
     -rw-r--r--   1 root     system     49152 Feb 27 16:24 gzip.o
     -rw-r--r--   1 4905     10         17382 Aug 18  1993 gzip.texi
     -rw-r--r--   1 4905     10          6024 Aug 13  1993 unzip.c
     -rw-r--r--   1 root     system     32768 Feb 27 16:31 unzip.o
     -rw-r--r--   1 4905     10          3170 Aug 13  1993 zip.c
     -rw-r--r--   1 root     system     32768 Feb 27 16:27 zip.o
     
     
     I imagine it's painfully obvious that I'm a neophyte at using the unix 
     environment for anything "serious", so I beg indulgence, and if it's a 
     matter of RTFM'ing, just point me at the relevant man pages (is there 
     some way to scroll back up in those displays?  That makes using man so 
     tedious -- I'm used to the VM/CMS and OS/2 and Windoze help systems, 
     which SEEM to be much more flexible/usable, but if that's just my 
     ignorance, then let me know, please!)
     
     BTW, the object of all this is so I can gunzip the Perl distribution 
     so I can "make" it -- joy!  A pre-compiled version of that and/or gzip 
     for DUnix would be nice, but I see this as a learning opportunity that 
     I need to take advantage of ;-}
     
     TIA for any assistance,
     Rory O'Connor  --   rory_o'connor_at_us.wfl.com  919-483-9133
                   Glaxo Wellcome, Inc.
     
Received on Wed Feb 28 1996 - 16:20:03 NZDT