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From: james@bigtex.cactus.org (James Van Artsdalen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: ESIX compress(1) broken (was: Re: Using Interactive TPWB...)
Keywords: ESIX compress
Message-ID: <52718@bigtex.cactus.org>
Date: 12 Jan 91 06:40:37 GMT
References: <1991Jan6.225758.27472@portia.Stanford.EDU> <1991Jan7.154351.16652@jwt.UUCP> <1991Jan8.222044.9602@unixland.uucp> <1991Jan9.211306.25217@everex.uucp>
Reply-To: james@bigtex.cactus.org (James Van Artsdalen)
Organization: Institute of Applied Cosmology, Austin TX
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In <1991Jan9.211306.25217@everex.uucp>, jde@everex.uucp (-Jeff Ellis()) wrote:

| I just threw the Esix 'compress' in the dumper and installed another
| "working" compress in its place.  So far, so good...

> 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.

If by 4.0 you mean SysVr4, my /usr/bin/compress does support the -d
option...
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