/F Forces the compression operation on all specified objects, even those that the system has
already compressed. Normally, the system skips any files that are already compressed. You may
have to use this switch when working with files in some instances.
/Q Reports only essential information such as errors, rather than general information including
success messages.
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filename Specifies the file or directory name to work with. You can use all of the standard
wildcard combinations to specify multiple files or directories. See the ???Working with Wildcard
Characters??? sidebar in Chapter 14 for details.
When used by itself, the Compact utility displays the current compaction state of files in the current
directory, as shown in Figure 15.1. You can supply a directory without any other arguments
to see the compaction state of files in other directories. The utility shows all compacted files with a
C; all normal files have a space in place of the C. In addition to the compaction state, the standard
output includes the actual file size, the compacted file size, and the compaction ratio. Unlike other
utilities, Compact doesn??™t use a tabular format??”each line contains a continuous entry that shows
the information used to determine the compaction ratio.
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