[buildroot 0000971]: zcat vs. gunzip (host system portability)

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The following issue has been SUBMITTED. 
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http://busybox.net/bugs/view.php?id=971 
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Reported By:                wiml
Assigned To:                uClibc
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Project:                    buildroot
Issue ID:                   971
Category:                   Other
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   block
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     assigned
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Date Submitted:             07-25-2006 21:31 PDT
Last Modified:              07-25-2006 21:31 PDT
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Summary:                    zcat vs. gunzip (host system portability)
Description: 
As the man page for (g)zcat mentions, zcat is identical to gunzip -c,
except that zcat might not be installed on some systems (or might be the
old 'compress' zcat instead of the GNU zip gzcat). Darwin / MacOS is one
such.

Using gunzip -c should work everywhere. A patch is attached.
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Issue History 
Date Modified   Username       Field                    Change               
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07-25-06 21:31  wiml           New Issue                                    
07-25-06 21:31  wiml           Status                   new => assigned     
07-25-06 21:31  wiml           Assigned To               => uClibc          
07-25-06 21:31  wiml           File Added: zcat.patch                       
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