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From: kim@uts.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: compress 4.0 for the amiga
Message-ID: <27dc02lWe25G01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 7 Nov 90 22:12:10 GMT
References: <35043@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <4bFX02yd03bo01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>
Reply-To: kim@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation,  Sunnyvale, CA 94086
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In article <4bFX02yd03bo01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> I also wrote:
> 
> Perhaps you would post your version to comp.{sources|binaries}.amiga, or put
> it up on abcfd20 Joe, as the version Phil put up has a very annoying problem.
> That being it has the 12-char filename limit (14 including the .Z suffix)
> compiled in (which is only needed for SysV's ... not AmigaDOS) ...
> 
> Or maybe Phil could fix his version ...?

Sorry to drag this out across three followups, but I just noticed another VERY
annoying problem in the version that Phil put up on abcfd20 ... it does NOT
preserve the file's date and time stamp!

Another smaller problem ... when using the -c option (as in zcat), the output
buffer size is such that it is difficult to "block" the output to stdout by
hitting the space-bar (or some other key), as the rest of the buffer gets
dumped before the "blocking" takes effect.  Similarly for ^C breaking.

OK ... I'll shut-up for now ... :-)

/kim


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