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From: cmurcko@gvlf8-g.gvl.unisys.com (Chuck Murcko)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: ESIX compress(1) broken (was: Re: Using Interactive TPWB...)
Keywords: ESIX compress
Message-ID: <1991Jan12.072601.27538@news.gvl.unisys.com>
Date: 12 Jan 91 07:26:01 GMT
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In article <1991Jan11.061409.4396@jwt.UUCP> john@jwt.UUCP (John Temples) writes:
>In article <1991Jan11.001235.6787@news.gvl.unisys.com> cmurcko@gvlf8-g.GVL.Unisys.COM (Chuck Murcko) writes:
>>In article <1991Jan9.181750.17491@druid.uucp>, darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) writes:
>>|> BTW - HEY EVEREX!!! How about tossing your current version of compress and
>>|> using the one from the net?
>
>>It IS the one from the net. It's just built without the DEBUG flag.
>
>In the sources I have, the DEBUG flag enables -D, not -d.
>
>And here's the usage message from the ESIX compress:
>
>$ compress -x
>Unknown flag: 'x'; Usage: compress [-dfvcuV] [-b maxbits] [file ...]
>
>It shows -d as a valid option, yet it doesn't work...
>-- 
>John W. Temples -- john@jwt.UUCP (uunet!jwt!john)

In the MIT X Windows distribution, the DEBUG flag turns on the -d AND -D
flags. Maybe ESIX blew the compile, maybe not. Maybe they edited the source.
My advice is to take the advice of the rest of the folks on the net and
either edit the cnews scripts to use uncompress or build your own from source
with DEBUG enabled and replace the ones from ESIX.

Chuck