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...and because gzip was not bundled with the OS until 2.8, IIRC. They've only recently started bundling seemingly neccessary utilities like top, ssh, and bash. I think top was included in Solaris 9?

Basically, when I need to restore my system from backups after a crash, I can be sure that compress is there, but not sure about gzip.
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