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From: dwm@wo.msc.umn.edu (Don Mears)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: COMPRESS bug?  Has this happened to YOU?
Summary: interrupted zcat removes files
Keywords: BUG compress
Message-ID: <3907@uc.msc.umn.edu>
Date: 16 Apr 91 19:25:50 GMT
References: <82@morwyn.UUCP>
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Reply-To: dwm@msc.edu (Don Mears)
Organization: Minnesota Supercomputer Center, Minneapolis, MN
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In <82@morwyn.UUCP> forrie@morwyn.UUCP (Forrie Aldrich) writes:
>When I am in the middle of 'zcat'ing a file, and I stop/interrupt, suddenly
>the file I was looking at disappears and is gone without a trace.

This feature can be removed with patches on:
	uunet.uu.net:  comp.sources.misc/volume6/compress-patch.Z

dwm@msc.edu         Donald W. Mears @ Minnesota Supercomputer Center