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From: jtc@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca (J.T. Conklin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: ESIX compress(1) broken (was: Re: Using Interactive TPWB...)
Keywords: ESIX compress
Message-ID: <1296@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca>
Date: 11 Jan 91 00:03:26 GMT
References: <1991Jan7.154351.16652@jwt.UUCP> <1991Jan8.222044.9602@unixland.uucp> <1991Jan9.211306.25217@everex.uucp>
Organization: SEAC Software Engineering, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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In article <1991Jan9.211306.25217@everex.uucp> jde@everex.uucp (-Jeff Ellis()) writes:
>I don't what should be a standard for unix compress but AT&T with the 4.0
>source did not support the -d option also. I guess something will have to
>change, AT&T or these public domain programs.

The fact that AT&T broke compress does not absolve ESIX from not
fixing it.

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J.T. Conklin	jtc@wimsey.bc.ca, ...!{uunet,ubc-cs}!van-bc!jtc