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Author: Bob Elzer
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Subject: Re: Adding text to a compressed file without uncompressing
Damn spell checker

Concatenate the files

cat textfile compressedfile > newfile 

Or    cat textfile compressedfile textfile > newfile


But I don't think you'll be able to uncompress the new file afterwards.

You will then need to find a way to remove the lines to uncompress the
original file
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