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The options -Z, --compress, and --uncompress all require that there be a
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'compress' utility installed on the system. If there is no compress installed
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on your system, you will get errors if you try to use these options to tar.
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While the algorithm used by compress was originally encumbered by patents,
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enough time has passed that 'ncompress' is now available in Debian main.
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- - - - -
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The tar upstream developers prefer to document using the 'info' format, but
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unfortunately the info docs are under a license Debian considers non-free. If
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you want the full, canonical documentation for tar and not just the man page
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that upstream provides as a courtesy to users, you might want to install the
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tar-doc package which can be found in Debian non-free. Alternatively, you
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can find the tar doc online at https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/
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