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PUBCOMPRESS(1)  —  USER COMMANDS

NAME

pubcompress − compresses and reorganizes the pub file used by The Publisher. 

SYNOPSIS

pubcompress document

DESCRIPTION

Pubcompress reorganizes the data structures stored in the binary file used by The Publisher to store a document.  For documents that have been extensively edited this can save disk space and speed up editing operations on the document. Pubclean -f should be used on the document after it has been compressed to remove a backup file that is created by the pubcompress script. 

EXAMPLES

To compress a Publisher document named personnel:

% pubcompress personnel

compresses the document personnel. 

SEE ALSO

publisher, pubrm, pubmv, pubcp, pubclean

Sun Release 3.2  —  Last change: 26 August 1988

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