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From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: uncompress and enhanced diagnostics
Message-ID: <12062@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 5 Jul 89 20:43:16 GMT
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Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae)
Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences
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The version of compress that comes with the system is only compiled
to support BITS=12.  Most files you find are compressed with BITS=16.

To fix this I get the compress v4 distribution, which is on uunet
in the comp.sources.unix archive, or for that matter in any other
comp.sources.unix archive, and fix it so that it will compile with
BITS=16.  Then I track down and kill the other copy of compress.
Doing this also gets you all the other goodies which was in the
compress v4 distribution.

I hear a rumor there's going to be another version of compress 'soon'.
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