Why does compress produce whatever.ext.Z rather than z/whatever.ext?

[Leslie Mikesell]

In article <8031 at elsie.UUCP> ado at elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson) writes:
>Why does compress produce whatever.ext.Z rather than z/whatever.ext?


My choice would be to encode the old filename inside the file and shorten
the new filename if necessary. 

  Les Mikesell