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Re: "gzip: /dev/stdin: Inappropriate ioctl for device" on installation CDs

From: Theo de Raadt (deraadtcvs.openbsd.org)
Date: Wed Feb 23 2005 - 18:10:51 CST


> > gzip on the install media does not support compression due to
> > space constraints.
>
> why is it there, and in the path then? maybe I'm asking something too
> obvious, but I can't see it anyhow. if it can be first used after the
> installation, what's the point of putting the binary on CD?? to soothe
> ppl who tend to scream in panic in lack of a gzip?

Because the install media files are gzipped, and it still does gzip
DECOMPRESSION.

It is designed to perform installs. It is not designed to do much more
than that.